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Nina Dyakonova

Nina Yakovlevna Dyakonova (also spelled Diakonova;[4] Russian: Нина Яковлевна Дьяконова; born Magaziner; October 20, 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire - December[5] 9, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Russian researcher of 19th century English and European literature, full professor, Doctor of Philology, member[6][7][8] of the Board of Directors of the International Byron Society, and member[9] of the editorial board of the Russian academic book series Literaturniye pamyatniki (Literary monuments [ru]). She was an authority in the history of English literature (with a special interest in English Romantic poetry (Keats, Byron, Shelley)) and links between European literatures[10][4] with each other and with Russian[11] literature, especially of the 19th century, following her professor Mikhail P. Alexeyev [ru].

Biography

Born in the family of the famous Soviet lawyer Professor Yakov Mironovich Magaziner [ru] (1882-1961) and his wife Lydia Mikhailovna.

In 1937 she graduated from the Leningrad State University, finishing the courses of two sections - linguistic and literary, and was a disciple of Professors Mikhail P. Alexeyev [ru] and Viktor M. Zhirmunsky. In 1936 she married the Orientalist scholar Igor M. Dyakonov. In 1943, in the World War II evacuation from besieged Leningrad to a small town of Kyshtym, she defended her Candidate of Sciences thesis «Китс и поэты Возрождения» ("Keats and Renaissance Poets"). Since 1944 she was an assistant professor, then a full professor at the History of Foreign Literatures Department at the Faculty/School of Philology of Leningrad State University. In 1966 she defended her doctoral dissertation "Лондонские романтики и проблемы английского романтизма» ("London Romantics and the Problems of English Romanticism"), dedicated to the works of Hazlitt, Ch.Lamb, Lee Hunt and other "Londoners." Long-term friendship associated N. Ya. Dyakonova with Ye. G. Etkind and F. A. Vigdorova. Since 1985 she taught[5] at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after Alexander Herzen (now Alexander Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University).

Family

Husband

Igor Mikhailovich Dyakonov, Russian historian of the Orient and linguist.

Sons

Husband's brother's family

Work

Literary scholar

The author of significant works on the writing of Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Dickens,[15][11] Stevenson, Shaw, Huxley.

Teacher

Dyakonova already joined the teaching profession as an undergraduate student: in 1934 she began to teach English to undergraduates of Oriental studies. Since then, her teaching career never interrupted for a year. Among the students of Dyakonova were dozens of candidates and doctors of science, experienced university teachers and translators of fiction (Galina S. Usova, Galina V. Yakovleva, V.E. Vetlovskaya, I.B. Komarova, Alexandr A. Chameyev, Sergey L. Sukharev, and others).

The last decades of her teaching activity were spent[5] as a full professor at the Department of Foreign Literature of the Philological Faculty of Alexander Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University,

Editor

N. Ya. Dyakonova edited translations of Byron, Lamb, Keats, Fielding, Radcliffe, De Quincey, Hazlitt, and compiled several editions of English classical literature (Kipling, Huxley, Lawrence). Two books on Byron (Bairon v gody izgnaniya[10] (Byron in the years of exile), 1974, Liricheskaya poeziya Bairona[10] (Byron's Lyrical Poetry), 1975) arose from a long and careful (for more than two years) editing of the translation of the poem Don Juan performed by Tatyana Grigorievna Gnedich .

Legacy

Monographs

Articles

Editing, compiling, commenting

Reviews

Memoirs

Filmography

Links

References

  1. ^ a b Олег Овчаров (2017-01-10). "Воспоминания Нины Яковлевны Дьяконовой. Часть 1. О предках". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-12-25.
  2. ^ a b "Michel I Dyakonov | Université de Montpellier (UM1) | ResearchGate". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  3. ^ a b "D.I.Diakonov". thd.pnpi.spb.ru. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  4. ^ a b Diakonova, Nina (1994). "Heine as an Interpreter of Byron". The Byron Journal. 22: 63–69. doi:10.3828/bj.1994.5.
  5. ^ a b c Cochran, Peter (2014). "Obituaries Anne Barton and Nina Diakonova". The Byron Journal. 42 (1): 1–4. doi:10.3828/bj.2014.3. S2CID 162399710.
  6. ^ "The International Byron Society 1990". The Byron Journal. 18: 131–133. 1990-01-01. doi:10.3828/BJ.1990.18. ISSN 0301-7257.
  7. ^ "The International Byron Societies Officers and Addresses". The Byron Journal. 37 (2): 196–199. 2009-12-25. doi:10.1353/byr.0.0070. ISSN 1757-0263.
  8. ^ "The International Byron Societies Officers and Addresses". The Byron Journal. 39 (2): 212–216. 2011. doi:10.3828/bj.2011.25. ISSN 1757-0263.
  9. ^ a b "Дьяконова Нина Яковлевна" (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  10. ^ a b c d Cardwell, Richard A. (2004). The Reception of Byron in Europe. A&C Black. ISBN 9780826468444.
  11. ^ a b Hollington, Michael (2013-08-29). The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe. A&C Black. ISBN 9781623560768.
  12. ^ "Школа-семинар "Спиновая физика полупроводников",приуроченная к 75-летию почетного члена ФТИ им. А.Ф.Иоффе М.И.Дьяконова". www.ioffe.ru. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  13. ^ "Michel I Dyakonov | Université de Montpellier (UM1) | ResearchGate". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  14. ^ a b c "www.russ.ru Елена Дьяконова. "Я занялась японским на волне детского романтизма"". old.russ.ru. Archived from the original on 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  15. ^ Diakonova, Nina (2013). Hollington, Michael (ed.). Dickens in Russia: A Survey. A&C Black. pp. 79–85. ISBN 9781623560768. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  16. ^ Cardwell, Richard A. (2004). The Reception of Byron in Europe. A&C Black. ISBN 9780826468444.
  17. ^ "URSS.ru - Купить книгу: Дьяконова Н.Я., Амелина Т.А. // Diakonova N.Ya., Amelina T.A. / Хрестоматия по английской литературе XIX века // An Anthology of English Literature of the 19-th Century (in English) / Dyakonova N.Ya., Amelina T.A. // Diakonova N.Ya., Amelina T.A. / ISBN 978-5-396-00113-8". urss.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  18. ^ Книга "Минувшие дни". ISBN 9785846509283. Retrieved 2017-12-22. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  19. ^ Дьяконова, Нина (2009). Минувшие дни. Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ. ISBN 978-5-8465-0928-3.