Victor Grigorovich

Grigorovich was born on April 30, 1815, in Balta, today Ukraine and died on December 19, 1876 in Elizavetgrad, now Ukraine. From 1842 through 1863, Grigorovich was a professor at the department of Slavic literature at the University of Kazan. During 1848–49 he was a lecturer at the Moscow University and from 1865 through 1876 at the University of Odessa. One of the first scholars to study the archaeology, ethnography and history of the South Slavs. Between 1844 and 1847 he made a tour through the Ottoman Balkans, where he collected a lot of works of South Slavic and Church Slavonic literature. During his trip he found valuable Medieval manuscripts that he took to Russia. He drew extensively upon some Byzantine sources for studying the history of the Balkan Slavs in several works. Grigorovich published the collection of his Slavic study in "Outline of a journey through European Turkey" in 1848. His book published in Kazan in 1848, helped the Russian public get to know the South Slavic people better.