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Pavel Konstantinovich Kokovtsov
Born(1861-07-01)July 1, 1861
DiedJanuary 1, 1942(1942-01-01) (aged 80)
NationalityRussian
Occupation(s)Orientalist, semiticist

Pavel Konstantinovich Kokovtsov (Па́вел Константи́нович Коко́вцов; 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1861 – 1 January 1942) was a Russian orientalist who specialized in Hebraic studies and Semitology; he was the founder of the St. Petersburg school of Semitology and member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society.

Biography

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After graduating from The First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium in 1880, he studied at the Faculty of Oriental languages, at the Hebrew-Syrian-Arabic Department, under Daniel Chwolson and Victor Rosen (1880–1884).

In 1942, he died in besieged Leningrad.

Works

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  • Catalogue des livres hébraîques : (edités jusqu'à l'an 1892) de la bibliothèque de l'Institut des études orientales de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS
  • Christlich-palästinische Fragmente, Berlin, 1905
  • Nouveaux fragments syropalestiniens de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg
  • Nouvel essai d'interprétation de la 2e inscription araméenne de Nirab
  • Short History of Syriac Literature
  • A New Hebrew Document about Khazars and Khazar-Russian-Byzantine Relations. St. Petersburg, 1913. (in Russian)
  • Hebrew-Khazar Correspondence in the Tenth Century. Leningrad, 1932. (in Russian)

References

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