Popov, Dmitry Prokofievich

Born in the family of a priest in the Tver province. He received his secondary education at the Tver Seminary, from where he entered the Main Pedagogical Institute as a student of the upper department in 1810 and, at the end of the course, passed the master's degree examination in ancient literature and philology (December 1814).

In June 1815 he was appointed to the service of an assistant librarian.

In 1817, he was entrusted with the teaching of Greek and Latin at the Boarding School of the Main Pedagogical Institute.

In 1818, he passed the title of Associate Professor at the Main Pedagogical Institute , and a year later, at the foundation of St. Petersburg University, along with the famous scientist F. B. Gref , took the chair of Greek and Roman literature. Service at the University continued until its transformation in 1835, when D.P. Popov was fired.

Upon leaving the University, he continued teaching ancient languages ​​in the 1st St. Petersburg Grammar School , whose teacher was from 1830, that is, from the time of its transformation from the Noble Pension. Service in the gymnasium lasted until 1849.

Upon leaving the gymnasium until 1859 he taught ancient languages ​​at the Roman Catholic Theological Academy, where he was appointed in 1843.

He continued his service at the Public Library , where he remained the senior librarian of the Department of Linguistics and Classical Philology until his death in April 1864.

During his service at St. Petersburg University, he received the title of extraordinary professor (1822), served for some time as a librarian and secretary of the Faculty of History and Philology, and finally was promoted to state counselor (1834).

For the period until 1835, he published only one work, “The Story of Leo, Deacon Kaloysky, and Other Works of Byzantine Writers ...”. Successfully translated from Latin and Greek many articles and treatises on ancient and modern history.

Developed some training manuals that have been used for quite some time in high schools, namely:

• “Greek grammar according to Butman” (St. Petersburg, 1836);
• "Greek anthology by Jacobs" (St. Petersburg, 1838);
• “The Greek Jacobs reader with references to the Greek grammar of Butman” (St. Petersburg, 1838);
• “Latin grammar compiled by Zumpt ” (St. Petersburg, 1838);

In the last 20 years of his life, he worked on the compilation of the Russian-Greek dictionary, the manuscript of which after death was transferred to the Academy of Sciences for the Demidov Prize.

At the suggestion of the Director of the Public Library A.P. Olenin performed the translation into Russian of the poems Iliad and Odyssey (the translation remained in the manuscript).

• Popov, Dmitry Prokofievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Popov, Dimitri Prokofievich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• “Report Imp. Public Library ”for 1864.
• V. Grigoriev, “Imp. SPb. University ”(St. Petersburg, 1870).
• Popov Dmitry Prokofievich .