DAHL (or DALE), VLADIMIR IVANOVICH (1802-1872)

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DAHL (or DALE), VLADIMIR IVANOVICH (1802-1872) , Russian author and philologist, was born of Scandinavian parent-age in 1802, and received his education at the naval cadets' institution at St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

. He joined the Black Sea

fleet

FLEET

in 1819; but at a later date he entered the military service, and was thus engaged in the Polish campaign of 1831, and in the expedition against Khiwa. He was afterwards appointed to a medical post in one of the government hospitals at St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

, and was ultimately transferred to a situation in the civil service. The latter years of his life were spent at Moscow, and he died there on November 3 (October 22), 1872. Under the name of Kossack Lugansky he obtained considerable fame by his stories of Russian life: The Dream and the Waking, A Story of Misery, Happiness, and Truth, The

Door

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

-Keeper (Dvernik), The Officer's Valet (Denshchik). His greatest

work

WORK

, however, was a Dictionary of the Living Russian Tongue (Tolkovyi Slovar Zhivago Velikorusskago Yasika), which appeared in four volumes between 1861 and 1866, and is of the most essential service to the student of the popular literature and folk-

lore

LORE
LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

Russia

RUSSIA
RUSSIA (Rossiya)

. It was based on the results of his own ' investigations throughout the various provinces of

Russia

RUSSIA
RUSSIA (Rossiya)

,investigations which had furnished him with no fewer than 4000 popular tales and upwards of 30,000

proverbs

PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later
Jews
- JEWS
- JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)
to Mishle;
Septuagint
- SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)
, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

. Among his other publications may be mentioned Bemerkungen zu Zimmermann's Entwurf des Kriegstheaters Russlands gegen Khiwa, published in German at Orenburg, and a Handbook of Botany (Moscow, 1849).
A collected edition of his works appeared at St Petersburg in 8 volumes, 186o-1861.

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