Biography of Vladimir Ivanovich
Dahl on November 10, Lugansk, a Russian writer, lexicographer, ethnographer, doctor, creator of the “Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language” Vladimir Ivanovich Dal. The father of Vladimir Ivanovich - the Dan, who accepted Russian citizenship - was a multilaterally educated person: a linguist, theologian and medication; Mother - German - freely mastered five languages and gave her children excellent home education.
In the city of Vladimir Dahl, he was given to the St. Petersburg Marine Cadet Corps, where, according to Vladimir Ivanovich’s recollections, “... dead was killed by time to the city so that I could not serve, but I had to serve as a punishment for official education, unsuccessfully trying to go to engineers, to artillery.” After graduating from the course in G. at that time, he began to record the words unknown to him, thus proceeding to the main cause of his life - the creation of an explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language.
According to Dahl: “He was engaged in the vocabulary unconsciously, studying the language, having retired from G. at the end of the Russo-Turkish war-gg. Dahl continued to serve as a military doctor and epidemiologist. Vladimir Ivanovich took part in the campaign against the Poles and distinguished himself during the crossing of Ridiger through the Vistula.
Dahl first applied an electric current in the Ministry of Excessive Affairs, mining the crossing and undermining it after the retreat of the Russian division beyond the river.
On the report to the authorities about the decisive actions of the division doctor Dahl, the corps commander General Reidiger imposed a resolution: “To present to the Order for the feat. Declare the reprimand for failure to fulfill and evasion of their direct duties. ” At the end of the war, Dal entered the St. Petersburg Military Surgical Hospital as a resident.
From the city of Dahl he lived in Orenburg, where he served as an official of special assignments at the military governor of the Orenburg Territory V. The performance of official duties was associated with frequent trips in the province, which gave the writer the opportunity to study the life and language of the people who inhabited it. Dal was elected to St.
Petersburg for the collected collection of the flora and fauna of the Orenburg province, Dahl was elected to the Academy of Sciences and began to work as a secretary and official of special instructions under the Minister of the Interior; C. In the beginning of the x. Dahl resigned, settled in Moscow and started working on a dictionary. Vladimir Ivanovich Dal died and was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
Among the works of Vladimir Dal are essays, articles on medicine, linguistics, ethnography, poems, one -act comedies, fairy tales, novels: “Gypsy”, “Russian fairy tales. The first heels ”,“ there were also fables ”in 4 volumes; , an article in defense of homeopathy, the magazine “Contemporary”, “One and a half words about the current Russian language” magazine “Moskvityan”, “On the beliefs, superstitions and prejudices of the Russian people”; , “On the dialects of the Russian language”, “Pictures from Russian life”, “Proverbs of the Russian people” - a collection that included more than 30 thousand.
As the distance recalled: “... Throughout my life I was looking for an opportunity to travel around Rus', I got acquainted with the life of the people, reading the people for the kernel and root, and the highest classes for color and mold, with a lack of book learning, life in fact, the very life in fact. I introduced me, I was friends comprehensively with the language: the service in the fleet, medical, civilian, craft classes that I loved, all this hugged a wide field together ...
I did not miss the day so as not to write down the speech, word, turnover to replenish my stocks ... ".