Aleksei Mikhailovich Sukhotin ( November 7 [19], 1888 , Kocheti estate, Tula province [2] - February 21, 1942 , Ulyanovsk ) - Soviet linguist and translator.
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Kocheti , Novosilsky uyezd , Tula province |
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| Scientific field | linguistics |
| Place of work | MGPI them. V.P. Potemkina |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| supervisor | N. F. Yakovlev |
| Famous students | M.V. Panov |
From the noble family of the Sukhotins . The stepson of the daughter of L.N. Tolstoy Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstoy , in childhood and adolescence, visited Yasnaya Polyana a lot and talked with Tolstoy.
In 1911 he graduated from the Alexander Lyceum , entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , worked in the central apparatus of the ministry, in the diplomatic missions of Russia in Montenegro, France, Italy. After the October Revolution, he returned to Russia, lived in Tula , worked in Soviet institutions. In 1921 he moved to Moscow, worked as head of the press processing department of the press department of the NKID (he was responsible for preparing reviews of the foreign press). In 1922 he entered the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies . In February 1923, he quit the NKID, making money with transfers.
In 1925 he graduated from the institute with a degree in Urdu , and also studied Arabic and Bengali . He taught Urdu there until 1928, wrote articles on the Bengali language and Bengali literature for the Literary Encyclopedia . In 1926 he entered the graduate school of the RANION with a degree in linguistics (scientific adviser N. F. Yakovlev ), graduating from it in 1929. Then he was a researcher and secretary of the Linguistic Commission of the Communist University of Workers of the East , executive secretary of a series of collections of the All- Union Central Committee of Culture and Literature of the East .
In 1931-1933, a senior research fellow at NIIAZ . He met there with a group of young linguists ( P. S. Kuznetsov , R. I. Avanesov , V. N. Sidorov , A. A. Reformed ), with whom he founded the Moscow Phonological School .
Since 1933, professor of the Russian language department at the Moscow City Pedagogical Institute .
He was a member of the Spelling Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Together with his teacher N.F. Yakovlev, he dealt with the problems of developing new national scripts. For the first time he applied the term “ practical transcription ” in the article “Transfer of Foreign Geographical Names” in the book “Questions of Geography and Cartography” (M., 1935) [3] .
The author of several works on general, Slavic, Indo-Iranian and Turkic linguistics. At the suggestion of R. O. Schor, he translated into Russian the “ Course of General Linguistics ” by Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1933 ) and the book “Language” by Edward Sepir . He revised and edited the translation of D. N. Kudryavsky's book by A. Meye, “Introduction to the Comparative Study of Indo-European Languages”.
In October 1941, during a panic, he left Moscow and ended up in Kirov , where he received a ticket to the Ulyanovsk Pedagogical Institute . He died of a stroke on the way to a lecture.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Sukhotin Aleksei Mikhailovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Now - Zalegoshchensky district of the Oryol region .
- ↑ Gilyarevsky R.S. , Starostin B.A. Foreign Names and Titles in the Russian Text: Reference Book. - 3rd ed., Rev. and add. - M .: Higher school, 1985 .-- S. 13.
Literature
- Sukhotin A.M. // Great Russian Encyclopedia. Volume 31. - M. , 2016 .-- S. 474.
- Alpatov V.M. Moscow Linguistic / Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the Study and Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. - M .: Publishing House of the Institute of Foreign Languages, 2001. - S. 54-58. - 104 p. - ( Natural and cultural heritage of Moscow ). - 500 copies. - ISBN 5-88966-028-4 .
Links
- M.V. Panov. Moscow Linguistic School. Teachers : Lecture No. 4. A. M. Sukhotin