Grigory Ivanovich Kolpakchi ( fr. Grégoire Kolpaktchy - Gregoire Kolpakchi ; [1] March 15 (27), 1886 , Khotyn of the Bessarabian province [2] - after 1973, Paris ) [3] - Russian- French philosopher and Egyptologist , polyglot . Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Department of Egyptology, Practical School of Higher Studies at the Sorbonne [4] .
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Biography
From a Jewish family. [5] [6] The son of Raisa Mikhailovna Kolpakchi (d. March 13, 1925, Berlin) and Jonah (Ivan) Markovich Kolpakchi ( April 16, 1857 - April 29, 1909 ) - an otolaryngologist, a native of Khotinsky district of Bessarabian province , a graduate of Kamenetz-Podolsky gymnasium (1876) and the St. Petersburg Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy (1881), privat-docent of Kharkov University . [7] [8] [9] [10] Grandfather, Mordko (Mordhe, Marcus) Aronovich Kolpakchi (d. 1914), was a co-owner of the Kolpakchi Bronstein Brewery in Khotyn . [11] Parents moved to Kharkov from Khotin , where his father served as a doctor at the city hospital, in 1886, shortly after the birth of Gregory, the youngest of three sons.
He studied at the gymnasium in Kharkov, then at St. Petersburg University . Since 1910, a follower of the anthroposophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner , since 1913 - a member of the Russian Anthroposophical Society. Since 1914 he lived in London . [12] In May 1914, he participated in the construction of the anthroposophical temple “ Goetheanum ” in Dornach (which Andrei Bely remembered). [13] [14]
Since 1917 he lived in Paris , where he participated in the work of the Russian Anthroposophical Circle, the Russian People’s University and the Rudolf Steiner School (1928-1934), was the secretary of the Hermes Paris Masonic Lodge (1934). He was published in the philosophical and critical journal The Way, [15] from 1928–1935 he was the editor of the journal Anthroposophy: Questions of Soul and Spiritual Culture. [sixteen]
I restored the original text and completed the first full translation into German and French of the Egyptian Book of the Dead (1954), which has survived many reprints in both languages (later an Italian translation was also published). The author of works on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy. [17] [18] He was fluent in many ancient and modern languages (fluent in Russian , French , Spanish , Portuguese , Norwegian , Turkish , Serbian , modern Greek , Berberian and Bantu ; without a dictionary, he read in various European languages, as well as in Latin , Ancient Greek , Chinese , Finnish , Japanese , Persian , Arabic , Ancient Assyrian and Ancient Egyptian languages ), studied at least one language per year. [19] [20] [21]
He taught at the Department of Egyptology at the Sorbonne and the State School of Oriental Languages ( Ecole nationale des langues orientales ). He was engaged in painting. [22] [23]
Books
- Mercure de France (la Source maçonnique de "Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra" par G. Kolpaktchy). Paris: Editions Mercure de France, 1934.
- Le Livre de la vie dans l'au-delà. Livre des morts des anciens Égyptiens: nouvelle version française, avec introduction et notes explicatives par Grégoire Kolpaktchy. Paris: Les Éditions des Champs-Elysées, 1954.
- Livre des morts des anciens égyptiens. Translation into French, reconstruction of the text and comments by G. Kolpakchi. Paris: Dervy Livres, 1955 (many reprints, most recently 2009). [24]
- Ägyptisches Totenbuch. German translation and comments by G. Kolpakchi. München- Planegg: OW Barth, 1954 (many reprints, most recently 2010). [25]
- Libro dei morti degli antichi Egizi. A cura di Gregorio Kolpaktchy. Milano : Edizioni Ceschina, 1956 (reprinted).
Literature
- Drawings by Gregory Kolpakchi (video) (with photo portraits and biographical materials)
- G. Kolpakchi "On the comparative characteristics of Buddhism and Christianity"
Notes
- ↑ In some documents (including the acquisition of French citizenship in 1925) also Georges Kolpaktchy .
- ↑ Some Russian-speaking sources mention Kharkov as the birthplace, but according to the autobiographical note of his father, I.M. Kolpakchi, the family moved to Kharkov from Khotin not earlier than April 1886, shortly after the birth of his son.
- ↑ The 1973 French edition of the book by G.I. Kolpakchi “Livre des morts des anciens Égyptiens” in 1973 states that this is a new edition edited by the author.
- ↑ Livre des Morts des anciens Egyptiens - Grégoire Kolpaktchy
- ↑ Ivan Markovich and Raisa Mikhailovna Kolpakchi
- ↑ Ivan Markovich Kolpakchi in the book “Medical Faculty of Kharkov University” (pp. 211–212)
- ↑ In memory of I.M. Kolpakchi Archive copy of October 6, 2014 on the Wayback Machine : Father I.M. Kolpakchi was a landowner in the Khotinsky district of the Bessarabian province . After graduating from the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy, Ivan Markovich (Iona Mordkovich) Kolpakchi worked at the Elizabethan Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg (1881–1883), then he was a doctor at the city hospital in Khotyn (1883–1885), in 1885–86 he specialized in childhood diseases for about six months. and diseases of the ear, throat and nose in Vienna . Since 1886 he worked in Kharkov , where in 1888 he defended his dissertation on the topic “On the Comparative Disintegration of Tissue and Non-Tissue Protein Species in the Animal Body and on the Nature of the Protein Reserve: Materials for the Physiology of Protein Metamorphosis in the Animal Body” (published as a separate book - Kharkov: Printing House M.F. Zilberberg, 1887); since 1889 - Privat-docent of the department of childhood diseases at Kharkov University . He also taught a hygiene course at the Kharkov Commercial School. Cavalier of the Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree ( Journal of the Ministry of National Education (p. 44) )
- ↑ Surnames of the Kharkov province (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 6, 2012. Archived October 10, 2008.
- ↑ List of graduates of the Kamyanets-Podilsky gymnasium )
- ↑ Medical Faculty of Kharkov University for the first 100 years (p. 141)
- ↑ Ichil Bronstein subsequently became the sole owner of this plant. The Kolpakchi family has been brewing for several generations, the grandfather of Jonah Markovich Kolpakchi also owned the Khotinsky “Arona Kolpakchi Brewery” ( see here ). Other family members were engaged in distillery in the Khotinsky district.
- ↑ Russian Abroad in France, 1919-2000
- ↑ Andrey Bely “Dornakh diary”
- ↑ Andrey Bely “Memories of Steiner”
- ↑ Index of the magazine "The Way" : On a Comparative Description of Buddhism and Christianity / Gregory Kolpakchi. - 1933 - No. 39 (July). - P. 60-66.
- ↑ Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal “The occult in Russian and Soviet culture” (p. 424)
- ↑ Grégoire Kolpaktchy. Metaphysik der absoluten Möglichkeit - als Grundlage einer geistigen Weltanschauung. Die Drei, 9. Jg (1929), Nr. 12.
- ↑ Karl Ballmer. Betrachtungen zu G. Kolpaktchys Metaphysik der absoluten Möglichkeit : Karl Ballmer (1930).
- ↑ Gregory Kolpakchi
- ↑ Extrasensory perception unopened (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 6, 2012. Archived April 25, 2009.
- ↑ Exploration of the Book Mountains
- ↑ Dessins de Gregoire Kolpaktchy
- ↑ Painting of Gregory Kolpakchi
- ↑ Le livre des morts des anciens égyptiens
- ↑ Das Ägyptische Totenbuch: Übersetzt und kommentiert von Gregoire Kolpaktchy (editions 1955-2010)