Palmov Ivan

Palmov Ivan (1855–1920) – historian of Rthodoxy, specialist in Slavic studies.

In 1876, he graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary and entered the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (graduated in 1880). He successfully defended his Master thesis ‘The Hussite Movement. The Issue of the Chalice in the Hussite Movement’ (St. Petersburg, 1881). From 1882 to 1884, he was on a business trip in Southern and Eastern Europe, working in libraries and archives of Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, and Czech. In 1890, he published a book about those travels and about his work: ‘From a Journey through the Greco-Slavic Lands’ (1890).

From 1885, he was Ass. Prof. of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (Department of the History of Slavic Churches), from 1888 - Extraordinary, and, from 1904, after defending his Doctor thesis in the Ecclesiastic History (‘Czech Brothers in Their Confessions before Their Rapprochement with Protestants at the End of the First Quarter of the Sixteenth Century’) - Ordinary Prof. at the same department. In 1920, before his death, he was Prof. at the Petrograd Theological Institute.

Corresponding Member (1913), Academician (1916) of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in the Department of Russian Language and Literature. Since 1889, member of the Council of the Slavic Society. Since 1907, member of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences in Prague; since 1908, member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts. From 1888 to 1918, member of the Council of the St. Petersburg Slavic Charitable Society.

He died on November 28, 1920 in Petrograd.

Compositions

The Hussite Movement. The Issue of the Chalice in the Hussite Movement. St. Petersburg, 1881. 582 p.
From a Journey through the Greco-Slavic Lands. Report on Research Work Abroad on the History of Slavic Churches from 1882 to June 1884. St. Petersburg, 1890. 133 p.
A Historical View at the Beginning of the Autocephaly of the Serbian Church and the Establishment of Patriarchate in Old Serbia. St. Petersburg: typ. A. Katansky and Co., 1891. 64 p.
A Brief Overview of Lectures (with Data from Sources) on the History of the Slavic Churches, for Students of the I and II Degrees at the St. Petersburg Theological Acad. in 1893-94. St. Petersburg, 1894. 489 p.
Idolatry among the Ancient Jews. St. Petersburg, 1897. 416 p.
Czech Brothers in Their Confessions before Their Rapprochement with Protestants at the End of the First Quarter of the Sixteenth Century. Vol. 1. Iss. 1-2. Prague, 1904. Vol. 1. Iss. 1. The Main Sources and the Most Important Manuals. 463 p.
Czech Brothers in Their Confessions before Their Rapprochement with Protestants at the End of the First Quarter of the Sixteenth Century. Vol. 1. Iss. 1-2. Prague, 1904. Vol. 1. Iss. 2. App. Confessiones fidei fratrum bohemorum. 400 p.
History of the Slavic Churches. Lectures for Students of the I and II Degrees at the St. Petersburg Theological Acad. in 1904. St. Petersburg, 1905. 349 p.

About him

Lapteva L.P. Palmov Ivan Savvich // Slavic Studies in the Pre-Revolutionary Russia. Biobibliographic Dictionary. Moscow: Nauka, 1979. P. 259-261.
Gerd L.A. Unpublished Letter of V.V. Bolotov to I.S. Palmov // Khristianskie chteniya. 2000. Iss. 19. P. 39-81.
Lapteva L.P. The History of Slavic Studies in Russia in the Nineteenth Century. Moscow: Indrik, 2005. 848 p.
Lapteva L.P. Professor I.S. Palmov and His Research on the Ecclesiastic History of Foreign Slavs // Vestnik tserkovnoi istorii. Iss. 3 (7). Moscow, 2007. P. 196-220.
Lapteva L.P. The History of Slavic Studies in Russia in the Late Nineteenth - First Third of the Twentieth Century. Moscow: Indrik, 2012. 840 p.
Brinzei G. Life and Works of the Professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy I.S. Palmov. (1856-1920). Master. Thesis. St. Petersburg Theological Acad., 2016. 140 p.