Dmitry Alekseevich Peshchurov (1833-1913) - Russian orientalist , professor of Chinese literature at St. Petersburg University .
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| Scientific field | sinology |
| Place of work | St. Petersburg University |
| Alma mater | St. Petersburg University |
| Academic rank | Professor |
Biography
He was born in the Kaluga province to the family of the Mosalsky leader of the nobility, real state adviser and gentleman Alexei Petrovich Peshchurov (1795-1833) from his marriage to Serafima Vasilievna Garder (1792-1850); brother of admiral A.A. Peshchurov .
He received secondary education at home and in a private boarding school in St. Petersburg. In 1849 he entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University , the course of which he graduated in 1853 in the category of mathematical sciences, with a candidate’s degree and a gold medal; On August 12 of the same year he was determined as a senior mathematics teacher at the 3rd St. Petersburg Gymnasium . In March 1857, after defense, on March 31, the dissertation on the theme “Investigating the Movement of the Minor Planet Fortune ” was awarded a master’s degree and transferred to the Ministry of the Interior - enlisted in the Beijing spiritual mission .
Sent to China and appointed head of the Beijing Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory, built on the mission in 1851, and stayed there until 1865. In 1859-1860 he actively helped the diplomat N.P. Ignatiev who arrived in Beijing. Since 1861, he was a consular agent in Tianjin , and since 1862, he served as the dragoman of the diplomatic mission in Beijing.
In 1865, during his vacation, he married the daughter of a Russian priest in London, Evgeny Popov, Anna [1] .
In 1866, Peshchurov was identified as a translator of the Chinese language at the Asian Department, in September 1867, while remaining on the staff of the department as a translator, he began to teach Chinese at St. Petersburg University with the rank of associate professor. Curious is the testimony of S. M. Georgievsky about the first lessons when Peshchurov warned his listeners:
Have you considered, gentlemen, the difficulty of the business you are taking on? After all, you have to deal with a language in which there is almost no grammar, there is no alphabet, and there is only inexorable logic, and 40 thousand characters. While there is time, go to other places, to other activities.
February 24, 1890 D. A. Peshchurov was appointed acting extraordinary professor in the department of Chinese literature. His teaching activities continued until 1903 [2] .
His works: “Earthquakes that occurred in China during the Minsk Dynasty” (“Bulletin of the Imperial Geographical Society”, 1860), “Sino-Russian Dictionary of the Key System” (St. Petersburg, 1897); "The Chinese-Russian Dictionary of the Graphic System" (St. Petersburg, 1891).
Notes
- ↑ On the birth of the sixth daughter, Elizabeth, in January 1885, Archimandrite Flavian (Gorodetsky) reported in one of his letters: “D. God gave A. Peshchurov a sixth daughter recently ... "
- ↑ Peshchurov Dmitry Alekseevich. // Biography of St. Petersburg State University.
Sources
- Peshchurov, Dmitry Alekseevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- A 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. - SPb .: Type. or T. B. M. Wolf, 1896 .-- T. 2 (M — I). - S. 108-109.
Recommended
Links
- Collection of treaties between Russia and China. 1689-1881 / [Ed. D. Peshchurov]. - SPb .: M-in. affairs, 1889 .-- 271 p.