Shakhmatov Aleksey

Shakhmatov Aleksey (1864–1920) – philologist and historian.

In 1883, he enrolled to the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Moscow University, where he studied under the supervision of F. F. Fortunatov.

In 1887, he got the Candidate degree for his graduating paper ‘On the length and Accent in the Common Slavic Language’; he stayed at the University to prepare himself for the Professor position at the Chair of Russian Language and Literature. In 1890, he passed his Master exams and started to teach the history of Russian language at the Moscow University.

In 1894, he got the Doctor degree in Russian language and literature for the work ‘Research in the Field of Russian Phonetics’. Adjunct (1894), a member of Administrative Board (1898), Academician of the Ac. of Sc. (1899). Since 1901 – Actual State Couuncil. Professor of the St. Petersburg University (1910). Member of the State Council from the Academy (since 1906).

He participated in the preparation of the reform of Russian orthography (1917-1918).

He laid foundation for historical studies of Russian language, Old Russian chronicles, and textology of Old Russian chronicles.

Compositions

Some Words on the Nestor’s Live of St Theodosius. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1896. (in Rus.)
On the Initial Kievan Chronicle Compilation. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1897. (in Rus.)
Kievan Cave Patericon and the Cave Chronicle. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1897. (in Rus.)
On the Issue of the Origin of Chronographer. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1899. (in Rus.)
All-Russian Chronicle Compilations of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries // ZhMNP. 1900. (in Rus.)
The Korsun Legend of the Christening of Vladimir. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1906. (in Rus.)
The Mordovian Ethnographical Collection. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1910. (in Rus.)
One of the Sources of the Chronicle Legend of the Christening of Vladimir. Kharkov, 1905. (in Rus.)
Research on the Radziwill or Koenigsberg Chronicle. St. Petersburg, тип. Скороходова, 1902. (in Rus.)
Research on the Eldest Russian Chronicle Compilations. St. Petersburg, Archeographic Commission, 1908. (in Rus.)
An Essay on the Eldest Period of the History of Russian Language. Petrograd, 1915. (in Rus.)
Introduction into the Course of the History of Russian Language. Part 1, Petrograd, 1916. (in Rus.)
Primary Chronicle. Vol. 1. Petrograd, Archeographic Commission, 1916. (in Rus.)
A Survey of Russian Chronicle Compilations of the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Introd. М. Priselkov. Moscow – Leningrad, 1938. (in Rus.)
An Essay on the Contemporary Russian Literary Language. 4th publ., Moscow, 1941. (in Rus.)
The Historical Morphology of Russian Language. Moscow, 1957. (in Rus.)

Bibliography

A List of the Publiched Works by А. А. Shakhmatov // Izvestiya of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Russian Ac. of Sc. 1920, Petrograd, 1922, vol. XXV, pp. 7‒19. (in Rus.)
The Alphabetic Index of the Works by А. А. Shakhmatov // Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov, 1864‒1920. Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1930. (in Rus.)

About him

Vinogradov V. V. Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov. Petrograd, Kolos Publishing House, 1922. (in Rus.)
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov, 1864‒1920: [Biographical materials] / Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R.; Comp. S. Shakhmatova-Koplan, B. Koplan. Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1930. (in Rus.)
Likhachev D. S. Shakhmatov ‒ Textologist // Izvestiya of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R. Ser. of Literature and language. 1964. (in Rus.)

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