Alexander Pypin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Pypin

Russian literary historian (1833-1904)

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1833

Place of Birth: Saratov, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1904

Profession: journalist, literary historian

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Alexander Pypin

  • Alexander Nikolayevich Pypin (Russian: ??????´??? ??????´???? ??´???; 6 April 1833, in Saratov, Russian Empire – 9 December 1904, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian literary historian, ethnographer, journalist and editor; a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and (briefly, in 1904), its vice-president.
  • Nikolai Chernyshevsky was his cousin on the maternal side. Pypin actively contributed to Sovremennik (which he edited in 1863–1866), Vestnik Evropy, and Otechestvennye Zapiski.
  • Among his most acclaimed works are the History of Slavic Literatures (Vols.
  • 1–2, 1879–1881, with Vladimir Spasovich), the History of Russian Ethnography (Vols.
  • 1890–1892) and the History of Russian Literature (Vols.
  • 1–4, 1911–1913, posthumously).

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