Kulganek Viktor Karlovich

(1854 - 1902), Professor of St. Petersburg University, Academician. Educated at St. Petersburg University, where his principal mentors were K.YA. Lyugebil and F.F. Sokolov. He studied Greek manuscripts in St. Petersburg and Moscow meetings, as well as in England, Italy and Scandinavian countries, he studied Greek epigraphy and archeology in Greece. He received a master's degree for his thesis "On the basis of the text Andokides, Iseya, Dinarha, Antiphon and Lycurgus" (1879), a doctorate for his thesis "Porfirievskie excerpts from Attic comedy. Paleographic and philological studies "(1891). Major works Kulganek devoted to publishing the speeches speaker Antiphon ( "Antiphontis orationes", St. Petersburg., 1880), essays Kekavmena "Strategicon" (St. Petersburg, 1896, together with VG. Basil), "Forgotten Greek Proverb" (1893 and following, after the death Kulganek issued PV. Nikitin his "Excerpts from interviews Paisija Ligarida Patriarch Photius (St. Petersburg, 1906) and" Mich. Andreopuli liber Syntipae "(St. Petersburg, 1912). Articles Kulganek for criticism of the text and interpretation of various Greek writers and Suetonius, and others. students Kulganek published in the book "Victoris Jernstedtopuscula" (St. Petersburg, 1907). All work Kulganek of criticism of ancient texts differ astonishing skill; of quite insignificant remnants of the destroyed text he sometimes re-created reading, bearing all the signs of the apparent authenticity. Long-standing and maintain a strictly laid plan lessons Greek manuscripts brought him fame eminent scholar of Greek palaeography; Kulganek put us start the study of Greek papyri. As a university lecturer, he has attracted a large audience, but was an indispensable guide for professionals in their lessons, the monuments of Greek literature and palaeography. - See. PV. Nikitin, "Notes of the Academy of Sciences" (1902); G.F. Tsereteli's "Notes of a classical branch of the Russian Archaeological Society, (T. I); SA. Zhebelev "Journal of the Ministry of National Education" (1902, October). S. J.