Onto the ‘black bulletin board’ of shame, or Yury Dombrovsky in the archives of the Higher State Literary Courses (VGLK) (1925–1929)

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-276
Author(s):  
I. Duardovich
Keyword(s):  
Bulletin Board ◽  
Court Case ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gang Rape ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Shed Light

Founded in Moscow almost a century ago, the Higher Literary-Artistic Institute was nicknamed Bryusov Institute. However, following the poet’s death and the dissolution of his school, it was the Higher State Literary Courses (VGLK) that carried on Bryusov’s project. Very little is known about VGLK, much less about Y. Dombrovsky’s life as a student there. Working on the writer’s biography, the author turned to archives and discovered facts and documents related to Dombrovsky, which also shed light on the history of the university and student and literary life in Moscow in the mid to late 1920s. Among the findings were VGLK records of the scandal involving Dombrovsky and his statement submitted to the Presidium, as well as other documents, this time in relation to a different court case, a trial that shocked Moscow public in 1928: it concerned an alleged gang rape of a female VGLK student, who later committed suicide. These incidents are described in the novel The Faculty of Useless Knowledge [Fakultet nenuzhnykh veshchey]. All materials are published and commented for the first time.

scholarly journals Charipinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) present in the Museum of Natural History of the University of Wroclaw, with an identification key for Polish species

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (89) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Mar Ferrer-Suay ◽  
Jesus Selfa ◽  
Juli Pujade-Villar
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New Records ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Charipinae (Cynipoidea: Figitidae) deposited in the Museum of Natural History of Wroclaw University (Poland) have been studied. Seven species are recorded for the first time from Poland: Alloxysta brachyptera (Hartig, 1840), A. castanea (Hartig, 1841), A. citripes (Thomson, 1862), A. consobrina (Zetterstedt, 1838), A. mullensis (Cameron, 1883), A. nottoni Ferrer-Suay & Pujade-Villar, 2015 and Phaenoglyphis heterocera (Hartig, 1841). The presence of previously recorded species is confirmed and new records are specified. A key to all Charipinae species ever recorded in Poland is given.

scholarly journals Rozov Volodymyr Oleksiyovych in the history of the University of  Saint Volodymyr

2018 ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Оksana Nika
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Language History ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The article for the first time introduces into scientific discourse information about the unique archive of V.Rozov, Ukrainian researcher in the history of language, as well as literature, culture, philosophy. The uniqueness of the archive lies, firstly, in the value of works on historical linguistics and dialectology, secondly, in the development of topics “language – history – literature – cultureˮ in their interrelation, and thirdly, in the “new discoveryˮ of ideas of V. Rozov as one of the major linguists of the first half of the XX century and consideration of the prospects of his conclusions in modern linguistics. The archive contains the manuscripts of V.Rozov, which have not yet been systematically described and published, as well as printed materials. They open up to now a scientific heritage not appreciated sufficiently of the great Ukrainian linguist, who was only mentioned fragmentarily as a publisher of Ukrainian letters of the XIV-XV centuries. The archive impresses with the erudition of the linguist, his vocation in the works known in European linguistics, the profound knowledge of languages – Slavic and non-Slavic, and the scientific argumentation of the presentation. The languages of printed and handwritten works – Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, among the most studied genres – letters of the XIV-XV centuries, as well as Ukrainian school drama. The study of the scientific heritage of V.Rozov needs to be presented in a series of articles, the first of which covers his teaching and scientific activities at the University of St.Volodymyr, the Kyiv period of his life. It was during this period that his interest in the issues of the Ukrainian literary language, dialectology, and linguistic source studies began, which in fact determined the main directions of scientific activity in subsequent periods of his life, although the factual material acquires a wider generalization and thoughtful comprehension.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

John W. Boyer, The University of Chicago: A History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 676pp. ISBN: 9780226242514

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger L. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Learning ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Democratic Institution ◽  
American Universities ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

This chapter reviews the book The University of Chicago: A History (2015), by John W. Boyer. Founded in 1892, the University of Chicago is one of the world’s great institutions of higher learning. However, its past is also littered with myths, especially locally. Furthermore, the university has in significant ways been out of sync with the trends that have shaped other American universities. These issues and much else are examined by Boyer in the first modern history of the University of Chicago. Aside from rectifying myth, Boyer places the university in the broader history of American universities. He suggests that the early University of Chicago, in its combination of openness and quality, may have been the most democratic institution in American higher education. He also examines the reforms that overcame the chronic weaknesses that had plagued the university.

Dan Inman, The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014). ISBN: 9781451469264

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Zachhuber
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This chapter reviews the book The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (2014). by Dan Inman. The book offers an account of a fascinating and little known episode in the history of the University of Oxford. It examines the history of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In particular, it revisits the various attempts to tinker with theology at Oxford during this period and considers the fierce resistance of conservatives. Inman argues that Oxford’s idiosyncratic development deserves to be taken more seriously than it often has been, at least by historians of theology.

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