Alexander Turgenev

Alexander Ivanovich Turgenev (Russian: Александр Иванович Тургенев, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Ivanovich Turgenev; * 27 Märzjul / April 7 1784greg in Simbirsk, .. .. † 3 Dezemberjul / December 15 1845greg in Moscow) was a Russian historian.

Career

After completing his education at a boarding Moscow University 1797-1800 Turgenev studied for qualifications for the diplomatic service from 1802 to 1804 at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. Already as a student he began in the Russian press to publish, then took over but soon a state agency the Ministry of Justice (1805 ) and served in succession including as Head of Department, as Secretary of State in the State Council and a member of the Commission Council for the creation of a Russian Collection of Laws. In addition to his professional commitments, he served as secretary of the Russian Bible Society and the Patriotic Society of women.

Turgenev was in contact with well-known Russian writer and one of the closest friends of the national poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Turgenev became more and more in contrast to the repressive and increasingly obscurantist regime of Tsar Alexander I, who then dismissed him in May 1824 of all his offices; only the Commission for the Collection of Laws Turgenev was allowed to continue as a member. His overall highly successful career as a ministry official was thus definitely completed.

After 1825 Turgenev lived mostly abroad. His acquaintances included, inter alia, Goethe, Mickiewicz, Stendhal and Mérimée. After Turgenev was I, entrusted with the collection of materials on the history of Russia by Czar Nicholas I, the successor of Alexander, he began in the great libraries and archives in Western Europe systematically to search for relevant documents, which he later under the title " Historiae Russiae Monumenta ex antiquis exterarum gentium archivis et bibliothecis deprompta from AI Turgenevio " (1841-1842) presented.

Turgenews extensive travel and research activities of the years 1825 to 1845 is demonstrated not only by his extensive correspondence and his journalistic work, but also through his diaries and performed by him with great wealth of detail " Chronicle of Russians " ( Chronicles russkogo Moscow / Leningrad.: Nauka, 1964).