Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov ( born February 28, 1866 in Moscow, Russian Empire; † July 16, 1949 in Rome, Italy) was a Russian philologist, poet and author. He was closely associated with the movement of Russian Symbolism.
Life
After graduating from the First Moscow School Ivanov studied at the local State University, the subjects of history and philosophy. In 1886 he went to Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University and studied, among others, by Theodor Mommsen and Otto Hirschfeld Roman law, economics and archeology. During this time he became acquainted with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the German Romantics such as Novalis and Friedrich Hölderlin know. His study of archeology he sat in 1892 continued in Rome, where he completed his dissertation.
In Rome Ivanov met the divorced Lydia Sinowjewa - Annibal. After they were both divorced after Orthodox canon law, they married in 1899, first attracted to Athens, moved to Geneva to and made a pilgrimage to Egypt and Palestine. Italy Ivanov visited very frequently perform there studies of Renaissance art. His impressions in Lombardy and the Alps have been detained in his first sonnets.
Thoughts on the cult of Dionysus and the Theater
At the beginning of the 20th CENTURY Ivanov published his views to the Roman Empire and the Dionysus cult of ancient Greece. Its publication in 1904 The Hellenic Religion and the sufferer God essentially follows the ideas of Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy and in general, and describes the roots of the literature of tragedy from the ancient mystery plays derived.
1905 Ivanov published his first collection of works that he has written a decade earlier. They compared the poems because the calculated archaic style with those of John Milton or of Vasily Kirilovitch Trediakovsky. They were hailed as outstanding examples of Russian Symbolism. In the same year he returned to Russia, where he was celebrated as a strange figure. He settled in a tower house, across the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, where he entertained the most famous literary salon with his wife. His house was open to other representatives of symbolism as the poet Alexander Alexandrovich Blok, Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev the philosophers, but also artists such as Konstantin Andreyevich Somov and the playwright and theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold Emiljewitsch.
His two plays, Tantalus from 1905 and Prometheus (1919) wrote Ivanov modeled on ancient tragedies.
Later years and exile
Ivanov's wife died in 1907. Jaharen In 1912-1913 he undertook a journey to Italy. After his return he learned in St. Petersburg the critic Mikhail Gershenzon, the philosopher Sergei Bulgakov and the composer Alexander Scriabin know. He translated many works of ancient Greek into Russian. In 1920 he moved to Baku in Azerbaijan, where he held the Chair of Classical Philology at the University there, and wrote in his 1923 published work to the cult of Dionysus, which was his dissertation for his doctorate at the same time.
Only in 1924 was Ivanov a permission to leave the Soviet Union. He went to Rome, where he took a professorship at the Russicum as a professor of the Old Church Slavonian language. In 1937 he converted to the Roman Catholic faith. He died in Rome and is buried at the Cimitero Acattolico.
Works (selection)
- Selected Essays. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, USA, ISBN 0-8101-1522-0.
- Dionysus and the vordionysischen cults, ed Michael Wachtel and Christian Wildenberg. Mohr - Siebeck, Tübingen, 2012.
- In a cross arms we are two poems. Selection, translation and foreword by Christoph Ferber. Edition diamond, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-933777-21-8.
- Correspondence between two corners of the room / M. Gershenzon and Ivanov. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-608-95219-5.
- The old truths essays. Suhrkamp, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main in 1954.
- Anima, translated from German by Simon Ljudwigowitsch Frank, faculty of philology and the Arts, University of St. Petersburg in 2009.