Panegyrics of the first professors of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences and their students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2022.3-4.3.01Keywords:
Panegyric, reforms, Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Academy’s Gymnasium, I. A. Korff, T. S. Bayer, I. E. Fischer, A. CantemirAbstract
In the 18th century, the panegyric was a crucial part of Russian culture. Now it is a kind of special chronicles of the past, vital evidence of real events and people. In 1735, the president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences I. A. Korff reformed the Academy’s Gymnasium. Striving for the new Academy’s staff, he meanwhile intended to show Empress Anna Ioannovna of Russia the intermediate results of the reforms of the whole Academy. In February 1736, it might well have caused the panegyric on Anna Ioannovna written on behalf of the Gymnasium either by its inspector T. S. Bayer or by the rector of Latin classes I. E. Fischer; that panegyric was printed then by the Academy. The article not only reveals the historical context of the panegyric, but also offers its Russian translation made by the author of the article and goes into details about the creation of another panegyric, that of 1731, which was expressed in verse by A. Cantemir from a literal translation by Ivan Ilyinsky.
Received: 27.06.2022.
Citation
Kirikova O. A. Panegyrics of the first professors of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences and their students // Slavic Almanac. 2022. No 3–4. P. 261–278 (in Russian). DOI: 10.31168/2073-5731.2022.3-4.3.01
