Pokrovsky, Mikhail Mikhailovich

Born in 1868, graduated from the course at Moscow University. Contains a professor at Moscow University on the faculty of Roman literature. Scientists are divided on the Intercession of linguistics, philology and literary history, united with each other using the comparative-historical method. In the realm of the first two theses are Pokrovsky: "semasiological research in the field of ancient languages" (Moscow, . 1896) and "Materials for the historical grammar of the Latin language", . as well as a number of smaller works, . published mainly in foreign journals,
. In his linguistic works Pokrovsky gave a number of valuable observations on etymology, semasiology and teaching of word formation, as well as criticism of the text of the Latin glossaries. In studies of the life of language, he never leaves out the cultural and historical life of the people. Historical and literary works devoted Pokrovsky, . one hand, . political writings of Aristotle ( "On the question about the author of newly discovered treatise Athenaion politeia", . "Journal of the Ministry of National Education", . 1892; Etudes on Aristotle's Athenian polity ", . 1893 and others), . the other - Alexandrian poetry of the Romans ( "Materials for the characterization of Ovid", . "Journal of the Ministry of National Education", . 1901, . Book 7, "Essays on the comparative history of literature", . Issue I, . Moscow, . 1905),
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