Sergei Volchkov (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Sergei Savvich Volchkov (Russian: Сергей Саввич Волчков; 1707–1773) was a Russian printer, lexicographer, translator.

Volchkov made the first major Russian translations of Baltasar Gracian and Montaigne,[1] and was assigned to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1736.[2]

Selected works
  • Teusch- Lateinisch- und Ruszisches Lexicon, Ehrenreich Weissmann, Sergei Savvich Volchkov - 1731

References
  1. Vladimir Ėmmanuilovich Grabarʹ, William Elliott Butler The History of International Law in Russia, 1647-1917 1990 Page 110 "A qualified one was Sergei Savvich Volchkov, who was 'assigned to the Academy of Sciences' as a translator and who translated Baltasar Gracian [G162] and Montaigne [M205]."
  2. Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century ed. Roger P. Bartlett, Anthony Glenn Cross, Karen Rasmussen - 1988 "Sergei Savvich Volchkov (1707-73) was added in 1736, and probably at the same time so was Johann-Kaspar Taubert (1717-71), who like Shvanitz had been born in Russia of German parents."


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