Lamansky V.I., (1833-1914), Slavicist

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LAMANSKY Vladimir Ivanovich (1833 - 1914, St. Petersburg), historian, philologist, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900). Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the University of St. Petersburg in 1854, where he started teaching in 1865. In 1871 he was appointed professor, and in 1890 promoted to Honoured Professor. He also taught at the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy (1872-97), and at the Professional Academy of the General Staff (1890-1900). In 1880, he became Chair of the Historical Philological Society connected with the University of St. Petersburg. In 1890, he established Zhivaya Starina, an ethnographic journal he edited until 1910. In the 1890s, he helped open Emperor Alexander III's Ethnographic Museum. Lamansky founded the St. Petersburg School of Scholars in Slavic Studies (also known as Lamansky's School). Altogether he left behind nearly 400 academic papers on Slavic history, philology, paleography and ethnography, as well as on 18th century Russian history. From the mid-1890s, he lived at 32 Zvenigorodskaya Street. He was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (grave not preserved).

References: Нечаева Г. "...Чтобы было с кем "душу отвести"" // Рус. самосознание. 1998. № 5. С. 66-74; Саприкина О. В. Академик В. И. Ламанский: "Патриарх рус. славяноведения" // Новый ист. вестн. 2001. № 2. С. 157-177.

A. A. Kononov. Alexander III, Emperor
Lamansky Vladimir Ivanovich
Zvenigorodskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Саприкина О. В. Академик В. И. Ламанский: "Патриарх рус. славяноведения" // Новый ист. вестн., 2001
Нечаева Г. "...Чтобы было с кем "душу отвести"" // Рус. самосознание, 1998 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Theological Academy
General Staff Academy
Russian Ethnographical Museum
Alexander Nevsky Lavra