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Academician V.V. Vinogradov: the unknown pages of academic chronicle (for the 50th anniversary of the death of a scientist)

O.V. Nikitin
$2.50

 

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-19.117  

 

Nikitin Oleg V.

Doctor of Philologу, Professor,

Professor of the History of Russian and General Linguistics Department

Moscow Region State University

e-mail: olnikitin@yandex.ru

 

The article presents and comments on the original letters of the 1960-ies to academician V.V. Vinogradov from the Archives of RAS, revealing new facts of chronicle of the scientists’ activities. Attention is drawn to the problems of his works in different periods of life. The originality and breadth of the linguist’s philological views are noted. The documents show V.V. Vinogradov as a teacher, statesman and organizer of science, also as an original thinker who was in constant search of new ideas. Reception of respondent’s personal observations of V.V. Vinogradov personality will be interesting for historians of science. Particular attention is paid to the unknown biographical details, which show the cultural and historical situation in the scientific environment of the 1960s. Letters also indicate the rich creative contacts of V.V. Vinogradov with domestic and foreign scientists, writers. From archival memoirs of great importance is the letter of Nobel prize winner John Steinbeck to V.V. Vinogradov as an interesting fact of philological diplomacy in the Soviet era. For the first time published materials give a clear idea of the figure of V.V. Vinogradov outside the official chronicles and open the forgotten pages of the academic “saga” in the last years of his life. They can be useful in the development of ideas of general linguistics and philological epistemology.

Keywords: history of science, philological tradition, archival heritage, correspondence of scientists, linguistics and culture.

 

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