Pyotr Vasilievich Nikitin

The date of the death at the backside of the picture P.V. Nikitin May 5th 1916.

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Nikitin, Pyotr Vasilievich

Professor and rector of the Imperial St. Petersburg University, academician, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences (1900-1916).

Biography

He studied at the St. Petersburg Seminary and the Historical and Philological Institute , was a teacher at the Second Gymnasium (Russian and Latin languages), then sent abroad to Leipzig. In 1873 he received the Department of Classical Philology at the Nizhyn Institute of the Prince. Bezborodko , in 1879 he entered as an associate professor at St. Petersburg University , in 1883 he was approved as an extraordinary professor of the Institute of History and Philology, since 1886 he was an ordinary professor of Greek language and literature at St. Petersburg University. As the professor of St. Petersburg State University E. D. Frolov notes , Nikitin “brilliantly used epigraphic material to reconstruct such an important phenomenon in the cultural life of the ancient Greeks, which wastheatrical performances ” [1] .

Elected a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1888). From July to December 19, 1890, he served as dean of the Faculty of History and Philology, and from that date on he was appointed rector of the Imperial St. Petersburg University [2] (1890-1897). Nikitin's capital research: "On the history of the Athenian dramatic contests", gives him a doctorate (1832).

Buried at the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Major works

On the foundations of criticism of the text of the aeolic poems of Theocritus. Kiev, 1876. (master's thesis) Patmos scholias to Demosthenes // Izvestiya institut kn. Beardless. 1879. On the history of the Athenian dramatic competitions. SPb., 1882. Review of epigraphic documents on the history of the Attic drama // ZhMNP. 1881, December, dep. 5, pp. 603-664. Aristophanes. Thesmophoria. Translation and materials for commentary by P. V. Nikitin. Pg., 1917

Notes

1. Frolov E. D. Traditions of classicism and St. Petersburg antiquity
2. Biographical Dictionary of St. Petersburg University, volume II, 1896 , p. 69.

Literature

• Nikitin, Petr Vasilievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Biographical dictionary of professors and teachers of the Imperial St. Petersburg University for the past third quarter of a century of its existence, 1869-1894 . - Moscow: Printing house and lithograph of B. M. Wolf, 1896. - T. II (M — I). - S. 69-70. - 374 p.
• Zhebelev S. A. P. V. Nikitin // Journal of the Ministry of Public Education : [ rus. ] . - 1916. - Issue. 4 (August). - S. 43-71. - 454 p.
• Latyshev V. V. In memory of Peter Vasilyevich Nikitin // Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, series VI, 1916, No. 12, pp. 921-936.
• Rostovtsev M. I. In memory of P. V. Nikitin // Hermes, 1916, No. 17. - P. 408-410; No. 18. - P. 421-425; No. 19. - P. 436-445.
• In memory of P.V. Nikitin. Messages by B. V. Farmakovsky , M. I. Rostovtsev, G. F. Tsereteli , A. A. Vasiliev , S. A. Zhebelev. - Pg., 1917 (a separate reprint from "Notes of the Classical Branch of the Emperor of the Russian Archaeological Society", vol. IX, 1917).
• Frolov E. D. Russian Science of Antiquity. Historiographic essays. Ed. 2nd. - SPb., 2006. - S. 228-232.
• Basargina E. Yu. Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences P. V. Nikitin: from the history of Russian science (1867-1916). - SPb: Nestor, 2004.

Links

• Profile of Pyotr Vasilievich Nikitin on the official website of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Article on the site "Biography of St. Petersburg State University"
• Historical information on the RAS Archive website
• Photo

Дата смерти на обороте картины П.В. Никитин 5 мая 1916 года.

Википедия Филолог-классик, профессор и ректор Императорского Санкт-Петербургского университета, академик, вице-президент Академии наук (1900—1916).

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