Bogoroditskii, Vasilii Alekseevich

Bogoroditskii, Vasilii Alekseevich 

Born Apr. 7 (19), 1857, in Tsarevokokshaisk (now Ioshkar-Ola); died Dec. 23, 1941, in Kazan. Soviet linguist.

Bogoroditskii was a student of I. A. Baudouin de Courtenay. He was also one of the representatives of the Kazan school of linguistics and a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1915). He was a professor at the University of Kazan and later at the Kazan Pedagogical Institute. He worked in the fields of general linguistics, phonetics, comparative historical grammar of the Indo-European languages, the Russian language, and Turkic linguistics. He set up Russia’s first experimental phonetics laboratory at the University of Kazan in the 1880’s.

WORKS

Ocherki po iazykovedeniiu i russkomu iazyku, 4th ed. Moscow, 1939.
Kfatkii ocherk sravnitel’noi grammatiki arioevropeiskikh iazykov, 2nd ed. Kazan, 1917.
Obshchii kurs russkoi grammatiki, 5th ed. Moscow, 1935.
Fonetika russkogo iazyka v svete eksperimental’nykh dannykh. Kazan, 1930.
Vvedenie v tatarskoe iazykoznanie v sviazi s drugimi tiurkskimi iazykami, 2nd ed. Kazan, 1953.
Vvedenie v izuchenie sovremennykh romanskikh i germanskikhiazykov, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1959.

REFERENCES

Kuznetsov, P. S. “Vasilii Alekseevich Bogoroditskii.” In Tr. Intaiazykoznaniia AN SSSR, vol. 2. Moscow, 1953.
Mironositskaia, A. N. “Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ trudov V. A. Bogoroditskogo.” In Tr. In-ta iazykoznaniia AN SSSR, vol. 2. Moscow, 1953.
Pamiati V. A. Bogoroditskogo. Kazan, 1961.