Nikolai Zolotnitsky | |
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Born | Nikolai Ivanovich Zolotnitsky 3 December 1829 Cheboksarskiy uyezd, Kazan Governorate, Russian empire |
Died | 14 May 1880 | (aged 50)
Alma mater | Kazan University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | linguist, comparative Turkologist, ethnographer, public figure |
Institutions | Kazan Chamber of State Property, Ministry of Public Education, Kazan Mission School |
Nikolai Zolotnitsky (3 December 1829, Cheboksarskiy uyezd, Kazan Governorate — 14 May 1880, Kazan, Kazan Governorate) was a Russian Chuvash linguist and one of the founders of national Chuvash scientific linguistics. He was also a comparative Turkologist, ethnographer, teacher, and public figure.[1][2]
He was born in the village of Pervoye Churashevo, Cheboksary uyezd (now the Mariinsko-Posadsky District of the Chuvash Republic) in the Kazan Governorate.
In 1851, he graduated from the Philological Faculty of Kazan University.
He served in the Kazan Chamber of State Property (1851–54), then in the Chamber of State Property in the city of Vyatka (1855–65), where he organized a Sunday school at the gymnasium and directed it.
In 1865, he began working in the Ministry of Public Education. In 1867, he was appointed to the Kazan School district, and was an inspector of Chuvash schools of the Kazan School District. From 1875 he worked at the Kazan Mission School.
He died on 14 May 1880 in Kazan.