Gavriil Semenovich Firkovich ( 1805 , Troki - 1869/1870 ) - Karaite Gazzan , the closest assistant and financial director of A. S. Firkovich .
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 Gabriel Firkovich 2nd from the left. Drawing by K. F. Gun from the album by Gustav-Theodor Pauli "Ethnographic Description of the Peoples of Russia" (St. Petersburg, 1862). | ||
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| November 5 ( 17 ), 1857 [1] - 1869 [2] | ||
| Predecessor | Moriel Kaplanovsky | |
| Successor | Phinees Aaronovich Maletsky | |
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| Original name at birth | Dr. Heb. גבריאל בן שמחה פירקאוויץ | |
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| Father | Simha Firkovich | |
| Mother | Anna Haimovna Firkovich | |
| Spouse | Milka Avraamovna Firkovich | |
Biography
He was born in 1805 [3] in Troki in the family of Gazzan and Melammed Semyon (Simkhi) Firkovich. Mother - Anna Khaimovna [4] . He graduated from midrash and county school . Since childhood, he knew the Russian language, which since 1844 he taught at the Evpatoria Karaite school. He also spoke French and German [3] . He began to correct the Gazzan position in the Simferopol community from about 1838. Then for 10 years since 1840 he served as a Gazzan and Melammed in Sevastopol [5] (according to other sources - from 1842 to 1844) [6] . At this time, he began to actively help his father-in-law A.S. Firkovich, in particular, traveling with the archaeological target in the Caucasus in 1849-1850, exploring tombstones in the Karaite cemetery in the Jehoshaphat Valley near Chufut-Kale [7] . So, in 1847 they compiled a plan for this cemetery, dividing it into sections [8] . All manuscripts, coins and other values collected in the Caucasus, as directed by the Caucasian governor M. S. Vorontsov, were transferred to the ownership of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities [9] . Also, from the 1840s until his death, G. S. Firkovich was the financial director of A. S. Firkovich [10] , together with whom he defended the value and antiquity of the manuscripts and gravestone inscriptions they found before academic scholars [11] [12] . In 1857, he was ranked as a clergyman [4] and took up the post of senior Trosk Gazzan.
The author of a Hebrew essay in the genre of instruction and teaching (“musar” (from other Heb. מוסר , lit. “morality”) under the title “Zikaron Llador Aharon , or Notes by Gabriel Firkovich ”, dedicated to the financial disaster that befell him in the Urals in the late 1860s. The work was published in the form of a pamphlet in 1871 in Vilna after the death of Gabriel Firkovich [10] [13] .
Since the 1840s, he was married to the daughter of A. S. Firkovich - Milke [4] [6] . Had no children.
He died in the 2nd half of 1869 or at the beginning of 1870 [10] .
Notes
- ↑ Commemorative book of the Vilnius province for 1866. - Vilna, 1866. - S. 138
- ↑ Refael Abkowicz . Sany hazzanłarynyn Trok dzymatnyn // Karaj Awazy . - Łuck, 1936. - No. 10 . - S. 2 .
- ↑ 1 2 Vikhnovich, 2012 , p. 138.
- ↑ 1 2 3 The revision tale of the Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Eight Years of April of the First Day of the Vilnius Province of the county of Troc about the male and female souls of the society of bourgeois Karaimov // Official website of the Moscow Karaite Society. - Date of appeal: 02/23/2019.
- ↑ Elyashevich V.A., Shaitanov S.I. Luvakh gazzanim // News of the Spiritual Administration of the Karaites of the Republic of Crimea. - Evpatoria, 2017. - No. 24 . - S. 12 .
- ↑ 1 2 Bely O. B. Firkovich Avraam Samuilovich // Sevastopol: Encyclopedic Handbook (Russian) / red.-comp. M.P. Aposhanskaya. - 2nd ed. - Sevastopol: National Museum of Heroic Defense and the Liberation of Sevastopol, 2008. - S. 929. - 1117 p.
- ↑ Elyashevich, 1993 , p. 193.
- ↑ Fedorchuk A. Jewish necropolises of Crimea: the history of research and the current state . Jews of Eurasia . Eurasian Jewish Yearbook. - “... in 1847, together with his son-in-law Gabriel Firkovich [A. S. Firkovich] made a plan of the cemetery, broke it into "quarters" ... ". Date of treatment February 23, 2019.
- ↑ Elyashevich, 1993 , p. 194.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Gammal M.I. “Zikaron Le Dor Aharon” by Gabriel Firkovich, or Literary Consequences of One Bankruptcy . - Scientific works in Jewish studies. Materials of the XVIII International Annual Conference on Judaica. - M .: "Sefer", 2011. - T. II. - S. 159-173. - (Academic series; vol. 35).
- ↑ Vikhnovich, 2012 , p. 226.
- ↑ Kunik A.A. Tokhtamysh and Firkovich. Regarding the dispute about two distorted Jewish inscriptions and two fictitious chronology // Notes of the Imperial Academy of Sciences . - SPb. , 1876. - T. 27 , no. 2 , No. 3 . - S. 12 .
- ↑ Firkovich G.S. Zicaron glacier achron, or Notes of Gabriel Firkovich = זכרון לדור אחרון / ed. I.I. Kaplanovsky. - Vilna: Printing house of Fin and Rosencrantz, 1871. - 28 p.
Literature
- Vikhnovich V. L. Karaim Avraam Firkovich: Jewish manuscripts. Story. Travels. . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Academy of Cultural Research, 2012. - 368 p. - ISBN 978-5-903931-96-5 .
- Elyashevich B.S. Part II. Karaite Biographical Dictionary (from the end of the 18th century to 1960) // Karaites / ed. M.N. Guboglo, A.I. Kuznetsova, L.I. Missonova, Yu. B. Simchenko, V.A. Tishkova. - M .: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, 1993. - Prince. 2. - 238 p. - (“Peoples and Cultures”; issue XIV). - 250 copies. - ISSN 0868-586X .