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Biographical notices of RAS academician N. A. Mukhin

Biographical notices of RAS academician N. A. Mukhin

Biographical notices of RAS academician N. A. Mukhin

Biographical notices of RAS academician N. A. Mukhin

Author Biographical Notes

Author Biographical Notes

Author Biographical Notes

Author Biographical Notes

On Graham Pechey’s In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa, with an Appendix by Laura Pechey

This introduction to the life and work of Graham Pechey outlines and assesses his career as a literary critic and theorist, tracing his early attraction to Marxism, the importance of Mikhail Bakhtin to his developing interests, his engagement with South African culture and politics, his embrace of Christianity, and his later fascination with the minutiae of the English language in its literary uses. A biographical note is appended.

МАКСИМ ПРОКОПЬЕВИЧ ПРОКОПЬЕВ: ЖИЗНЬ И ТВОРЧЕСТВО

The article is devoted to the 140th anniversary of the birth of M. P. Prokopiev, Udmurt poet, publicist and public figure. The paper gives a brief biographical note, presents systematized material concerning his literary work. It is noted that in Udmurt poetry the foundations of political lyrics are connected with the name of M. P. Prokopyev. In his early life he wrote poems based on religious themes, imitated Russian classics and turned to translations of their works. It is suggested that his conversion to the Orthodox tradition was formed under the influence of Christian values transmitted during his studies at the Karlygan Central Votsk School and Kazan Inorodic Teachers’ Seminary. It is noted that M. P. Prokopyev was among the first Udmurt authors who turned in their poetic practice to the development of biblical themes, using the technique of approximate similarity to the quoted place from the Holy Scripture.

Российско-китайская пушная торговля в XVIII–XIX вв. по материалам частной статистики М. В. Пихтина

The development of the Russian-Chinese fur trade in the 18th-19th centuries is considered based on private statistics. A brief description of the source and a biographical note of its compiler are given. It is noted that in the 18th – first half of the 19th century the main point in the organization of the Russian-Chinese fur trade was Kyakhta. In 1800, the share of fur raw materials in trade with China was 70 %. In 1824–1828 Russian fur exports amounted to 3.2 million rubles in 1836–1840 – 2.6 million rubles. In the first half of the 19th century the total turnover of Russian-Chinese trade reached 800 million rubles. In the second half of the 19th century in China, there was still a high demand for Russian furs, which came from Russia through large fairs.

A Semantic Analysis of Om Ma'bad's Description Of Prophet Mohammad

This paper aims at a semantic analysis of Om Ma'bad'sdescription of Prophet Mohammad, it also attempts to explain the expressions in this description and to show their connotations (the morphological, syntactical and contextual ).The researcher gives a brief biographical note on Om Ma'bad. The study adopts the descriptive analytical method. The paper concludes that Om Ma'bad's description includes many strange expressions which were not so at that time and this is due to the fact that they were Bedouin following their instinct in speech.Om Ma'bad's description of the Prophet was a general description, for she does not describe minute things such as his teeth and hair. He was fifty-three years old when she described him and in spite of that, her description was not different from those who described him in his youth

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Author Biographical Notes

Bernard Schmitt and the Dijon–Fribourg School of Monetary Circuit Analysis

ABSTRACTThis paper presents the origin and the history of the so-called Dijon–Fribourg School that Bernard Schmitt created in regard of monetary circuit analysis. The first section provides a short biographical note about Schmitt and his academic research work in this regard, to point out his logical, rather than mathematical, approach to macroeconomics. The second section lists Schmitt’s followers, who are mainly based in Europe and have been studying national and international economic issues along Schmitt’s lines. The third section, then, focuses on the theory of the monetary circuit inspired by Keynes, before elaborating on it in the fourth section, which presents Schmitt’s own circuit theory. The fifth section thus summarizes the circuit of money and its logical laws according to this theory, while the sixth section points out the main differences between the Schmitt School and the French and Italian Schools of the monetary circuit. The last section summarizes the major points of this paper briefly.

Şule Yüksel Şenler: An Islamist Vernacular Intellectual

This article is not a contemplation on women and politics. Neither is it a discussion on Muslim women, the hijab, and Islamism. Instead, this is a testimony to and a remark on Şule Yüksel Şenler, an Islamist vernacular intellectual who blazed a trail in the Islamist politics of Türkiye commencing in the 1960s but existed in the Islamism literature rather through her absence. Şenler vernacularised Islamism by mobilising the hijab, public talks, cinema, literature, journalism, and womanhood, amongst other things such as charities, organisations and politics. As a testimony, I begin with a depiction of the context by providing a chronicle of Turkish politics focusing on the 1960s with a biographical note on Şenler. Next, as a remark, I attempt to work her out as a vernacular intellectual who fashioned the context that concurrently moulded her. To this end, I present Grant Farred’s concept of vernacular intellectual. Farred coins the term to account for the particular intellectual figures who emerged from the anti/postcolonial struggles. Then, I narrate the story of Şenler by expanding the vernacular intellectual and vernacular beyond the conventional postcolonial setting.

Alexey Olovnikov: theoretical biology beyond the margins.

Alexey Olovnikov (1936-2022) is an author of the famous marginotomy hypothesis, where he recognized the DNA end replication problem and its role in cell aging. In this biographical note we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this theoretical discovery that later enjoyed a brilliant confirmation and gave rise to a new thriving field of molecular biology and gerontology. We also take a look at the evolution of ideas in Alexey Olovnikov's lifelong quest to uncover the molecular mechanisms of aging, exploring the reasons why he walked away from his initial conclusion about the key role of telomeres in aging, and built a new vast theoretical landscape that linked all stages of ontogenesis.

‘Free from Soil’: The Curation of Anne Brontë

Famously described by her sister Charlotte as ‘long-suffering, self-denying, reflective, and intelligent, a constitutional reserve and taciturnity placed and kept her in the shade’, Anne Brontë has been consistently filtered through her eldest sister. This article suggests the notion of Brontë as a figure of curation, in acknowledging Charlotte Brontë’s personal agenda in the writing of the 1850 ‘Biographical notice of Ellis and Acton Bell’. With the intention of softening and feminising her sisters’ reputations, Charlotte’s (re)writing of Anne has been long accepted into Brontë lore. This article explores the consequences of the ‘Notice’ and its significance in the posthumous reception of Anne’s work as mainly autobiographical. It suggests that Anne Brontë’s enduring image as the meek, mild, moralist is a result of Charlotte’s careful and conscious curation, and explores the influence of this image on her literary legacy.

John Leo Mish at the New York Public Library: A Biographical Note

ABSTRACT John Leo Mish (1909–1983) was the Chief of the Slavic and Baltic Division from 1956 through 1976. He was also the Chief of the Oriental (later Middle East) Division at the same time. He was a renowned linguist, fluent in 34 languages including Manchu language. He was born in Upper Silesia, during World War II, found himself in Austria, Greece and finally in India. He emigrated to the USA in 1946 where he continued his scholarly career.

The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume 11: 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, with a Supplement, 1809–1815 ed. by J. C. A. Stagg

Reviewed by: The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume 11: 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, with a Supplement, 1809–1815 ed. by J. C. A. Stagg Lawrence Peskin The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume 11: 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, with a Supplement, 1809–1815. Edited by J. C. A. Stagg and others. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Pp. xliv, 780. $115.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-4436-4.) This volume completes the James Madison Papers Presidential Series. It covers most of the last year of the Madison presidency, from May 1816 to March 1817, and includes a short supplement of additional letters from Madison’s entire tenure as president. The editors provide a succinct preface that ably lays out the major themes of the correspondence. Reading a 780-page volume such as this from cover to cover is a somewhat strenuous exercise that gives a good sense of the quantity of paper coming across even a lame-duck president’s desk. Items range from Madison’s 1816 message to Congress and diplomatic reports, to routine requests for offices or pardons and short notes between the president and various officials. The biggest surprise here may be the outsized importance of Spain. A collapsing empire in 1816–1817, Spain nevertheless remained a threat because of its interests in the Western Hemisphere. Madison and his correspondents expressed particular concern about Spain’s claims to Florida as they negotiated for control of lands in what is today the southeastern United States. They also contended with rumors that Spain planned to recapture the recently ceded port of New Orleans. Overseas, Spain interfered with negotiations between the United States and Algiers when the delayed return of a captured vessel prompted a war scare. Spain’s omnipresence helps correct what, until recently, has been the usual interpretation of this period as one of frontier-building and domestic conquest. For example, Spain does not have an entry in the index of C. Edward Skeen’s book 1816: America Rising (Lexington, Ky., 2003). Readers of this journal will be particularly interested in the voluminous correspondence on treaties and negotiations with the Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee Nations. The editors have included a number of petitions and ad hoc responses from local settlers and, occasionally, from Native Americans, adding valuable perspectives. Much of this material also relates to Spain, in the sense that this diplomacy was tied to the acquisition of Spanish lands in the Southeast as well as to concerns about access to New Orleans and the lower Mississippi River Valley. Whether read sequentially or used for reference, a hardcover collection almost seems an oddity in our digital age. Its heft and the clarity of the fonts provided sensory and visual pleasures not available in online browsing. I also enjoyed the opportunity to read the letters in the order they were produced rather than via online searches. Nevertheless, readers who are not well versed in the period likely will be frustrated by the lack of annotations identifying correspondents, such as Henry St. George Tucker, to provide one of many examples. Cabinet officials also tend not to be identified, though readers will often be able to figure them out through context. The index sticks mostly to proper names. To use my own current interest as an example, the letters are full of references to consuls and consular appointments, but there is no specific index entry for consuls, the consular service, or similar concepts. [End Page 346] Many of these letters are already available on the Founders Online (National Archives) website. To take a somewhat random example, I found a May 5, 1816, letter from Madison to Jonathan Russell there with identical annotation. The online version benefited from hyperlinks to other letters between the two correspondents, as well as hyperlinks that lead to all of Russell’s correspondence with Thomas Jefferson in the Jefferson Papers, which, unlike the Madison Papers, provides a very useful biographical note about Russell. One can also readily search on many terms not included in the index, including consul. Thus, while this volume is beautifully put together and a pleasure to have on the bookshelf, the limitations compared with...

Gaspare Aselli’s discovery of lacteals

Article is dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the discovery of lacteals by the Italian surgeon and anatomist Gaspare Aselli (1581-1626). The author's translation of a fragment of Aselli's original text "De lactibus sive lacteis venis quarto vasorum mesaraicorum genere novo invento" with a description of the circumstances of the discovery is provided. A brief biographical note of the scientist is given.

MARTYN MATVIYOVYCH TEREHOVSKYI (1740-1796) AND IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING IN THE HIGHER MEDICAL SCHOOL

Objective: to summarize the main facts of M. M. Terekhovskyi’s biography based on a critical analysis of publications and, at the same time, to highlight his contribution to the improvement of teaching in higher medical school. Materials and methods. Published materials were used as historical sources. The historical method was the main research method in the article. Results. We performed an analysis of the literature about prof. Terekhovskyi. For the first time, his role in the reforms of higher medical education in the late 18th – early 19th centuries was clarified. The first critical analysis of the literature about M. M. Terekhovskyi, published over more than a century and a half, made it possible to identify erroneous statements and typos. It was found that the first publication about him appeared in 1845, that is, half a century after his death. It was a brief biographical note in the dictionary of Metropolitan Eugene. It was proved that the main and most complete life description of Professor Terekhovskyi was his biography written by Ya. A. Chistovich (1883), which was based on archival materials and supplemented with archival findings by M. K. Borodii (1984). The fundamental study of his contribution to science was represented by the work of S. L. Sobol (1948, 1963). It was shown that the charter of 1792 of the higher medical school (academy), which Professor Terehovskyi took part in, served as the basis for the staff of the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy in 1808. The charter of 1792 for the first time included Medical Police (Politia Medica), which was later transformed into Social Hygiene and Public Health, as one of the teaching subjects in the higher medical school. Then it was enshrined in the charter of 1806, which was written by the founder of this science, J. P. Frank. The study made it possible to identify gaps in the biography of M. M. Terekhovskyi. Thus, the date and month of his birth are still unknown; it is not clear who his mother was, whether he had his own family (wife, children), and whether he received a scholarship from Princess Ye. D. Golitsyna. With this regard, further archival searches are needed to confirm Professor Terekhovsky’s authorship of the handwritten essay «Opinion on the correction of medical sciences.»

Воспоминание о последнем праздновании Татьянина дня в Советской России

The recollection of Vera Falböck about the last celebration of Tatyana's Day, the holiday of Russian students, are published. In the preface, the publisher characterizes the conditions for the appearance of the document and gives a brief biographical note about the author. The document is stored in the State Archives of the Russian Federation among the profiles of graduates of higher educational institutions who emigrated from Soviet Russia. The text is brought into line with modern rules of spelling and punctuation.

Jorge E. Hirsch, su índice h y otros índices derivados

The h-index and how it is calculated are explained. The article begins with a short biographical note of its inventor Jorge E. Hirsh, nuclear physicist and pacifist. The characteristics of the h-index and the criticisms it has received are discussed. Other derived indices (m, i, g) are pre-sented. A brief mention is made of the Publish or Perish program.

Some Biographical Notes on Richard Bradock (and Others)

Abstract Because the printer Richard Bradock began his apprenticeship during the five-year gap in the Stationers’ early records, his origins have remained unknown. Tracing the life and career of his second known master (Henry Middleton), and of Middleton’s own wider connections in the trade, has led to a record of a man who turns out to have been Bradock’s father. Moreover, in his Stationers’ Company Apprentices, 1605–1640 (1961), D. F. McKenzie wrongly supposed that some records of a Richard ‘Bradde’ (or ‘Bradd’, or ‘Brad’) were simply using an abbreviated form of ‘Bradock’. Consequently, half the apprentices credited to Bradock should be reassigned to the Stationer Richard ‘Brad’, the son of Stationer John ‘Bread’ or ‘Bred’.