Isaac Natanovich Vinnikov ( 1897 - 1973 ) - Soviet scientist, professor , doctor of philological sciences. The main areas of scientific interests are semitology , arabistics , ethnography and folklore .
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Biography
Born November 26 ( December 8 ), 1897 in Khotimsk (now Belarus) in a Jewish family.
In 1925 he graduated from the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Leningrad State University , where his teachers were such scientists as L. Ya. Sternberg , P.K. Kokovtsov , I. Yu. Krachkovsky .
From 1925 to 1929, Vinnikov taught at the eastern faculty of Leningrad State University , in 1929-1943 he worked at the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (researcher - from 1929 to 1941, director - from 1940 to 1942 [1] ).
In 1936-1941, he studied the language, folklore and customs of the Arab population of Central Asia ; The result of these studies was the defense on June 19, 1941 of the doctoral dissertation “Arabs in the USSR”. In 1939-1941 he worked at the Institute of Marx, Engels, Lenin (IMEL) , taking part in the translation, commenting and preparation for publication of some works of K. Marx . He is also the author of a large study on the book by F. Engels, “ The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, ” and its significance for modern ethnography. He also studied the Aramaic language of the Jerusalem Talmud [2] .
After World War II, I.N. Vinnikov headed the Department of Assyriology and Hebraistics (1945-1949) at the Oriental Department. In 1946, he received the title of professor. In 1943-1953 he was an employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences ; in 1951-1953 - a member of the group of Leningrad Arabists, headed by V. I. Belyaev .
It was popular among students [3] [4] , although it had an ambiguous reputation among some fellow scientists. [5] During the campaign of “the fight against cosmopolitanism ” in 1949, the Department of Assyrology and Hebraistics at LSU was closed and all professors were dismissed [6] . The administration of the Institute of Oriental Studies twice (in 1948 and 1950) tried to fire I.N. Vinnikov, but academician I. Yu. Krachkovsky prevented the dismissal of the professor. This conflict situation was considered personally by the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences S. I. Vavilov .
After the death of Academician Krachkovsky I.N. Vinnikov was relieved of work at the Institute of Oriental Studies. After reconstructing the Department of Semitology at Leningrad State University in 1955, Vinnikov was a professor at the Oriental Department, where he read all the basic semitological disciplines [7] . Among his students - prof. Mikhail L. Geltser , G. M. Gluskina, G. M. Demidova and other famous semitologists.
He died on June 27, 1973 in Leningrad.
Notes
- ↑ Kunstkamera Archived March 28, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_personalities&Itemid=74&person=422 Isaac Natanovich Vinnikov
- ↑ Starkova K. B. Memoirs of the past, the life and work of the hebrew semitologist in the USSR / Edited by V. L. Vikhnovich. St. Petersburg: "European House", 2006. 356 p.
- ↑ S. Belyakov “Lev Gumilyov” // New World 2012, 4
- ↑ Sergey Rufovich Smirnov. Letters.
- ↑ S. Shalit, Away from the Promised Land // Seven Arts, Number 6 (7) - June 2010
- ↑ Faculty of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg State University / Faculty / Chairs / Department of Arabic Philology Archival copy of March 25, 2016 on Wayback Machine
Literature
- Questions of philology and history of the countries of Asia and Africa. L., 1971. Issue. 1: [Collection in honor of prof. I.N. Vinnikova];
- In memory of I. N. Vinnikov // Peoples of Asia and Africa . 1974. No. 5.