Dmitry Vergun
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Dmitriy Vergun (Template:Lang-ru, Dmitriy Nikolayevich Vergun; 1871–1951) was a Russian poet and historian of literature from the Austrian Galicia.
Born in a town of Horodok near Lviv of Austria-Hungary, in 1899 Vergun defended his doctoral dissertation "Miletiy Smotrytskyi as western-Russian writer and grammarian" in Vienna University. In 1900-1905 he was publishing in Vienna a neo-Slavophillic (Neo-Slavism) magazine "Slavianskiy vek".
In 1918-1919 Vergun was teaching Slavic philology in Moscow University and Irkutsk University.
Along with Pyotr Gatalak and Dmitriy Markov promoted the idea of Carpathian Russians.
Due to the Russian Civil War, 1922-1945 he was teaching Russian language and Slavic Studies in the Prague Higher School. Since 1945 Vergun was a professor at the Houston University.
He died in Houston in 1951.
External links
- Yas, O.V. Vergun Dmitriy Nikolayevich (ВЕРГУН Дмитро Миколайович). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine
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