Vissarion Belinsky

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (Russian Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский, scientific transliteration Vissarion Belinsky Grigor'evič; * 30 Maijul / June 11 1811greg in Suomenlinna in Helsinki, .. † 26 Maijul / June 7 1848greg in Saint Petersburg.. ) Was a Russian literary critic, journalist, linguist and philosopher.

Life

He was born in 1811 the son of a military doctor. 1829-1832 he besuchtet the Lomonosov University in Moscow, which he eventually had to leave because of " lack of talent ". The real reason was his romantic drama Dimitri Kalinin, in which he criticized the serfdom.

He then began his journalistic work in the Moscow Journal telescope. In 1836, the magazine was banned by the Tsar and the editor is closed. The editor went into exile; Belinsky had to go through a search.

In 1837 he left his tuberculosis in Pyatigorsk treat; During this time he made ​​the acquaintance of Lermontov. Two years later he settled in St. Petersburg, where he was until 1846 tonangebender House author of the influential literary magazine Otetschestwennye Sapiski ( Notes of the Fatherland ). In 1842 he assisted in the printing of Gogol forbidden by the imperial censorship novel Dead Souls. The following year he married Maria Orlova Wassiljewna; from this marriage were born three children. Beginning of the 40s he was the most important literary critics of Russia. The career of Dostoevsky began with a positive review Belinsky. The meeting of the two described Dostoevsky very pictorial in the January issue in 1877 of his diary of a writer.

In 1847, a study abroad in Berlin and Salzburg followed to treat his disease. Belinsky died a year later after a long illness. The mention of his name was banned until 1856 in the Russian press.