Name

Vladimir Fedorovich Girgas

Original name

Владимир Фёдорович Гиргас

Main activity

Linguist

Secondary activity

Orientalist

Title

Name variations

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Education place

Saint Petersburg

Education institution

Saint Petersburg University

Activity place

Saint Petersburg

Activity institution

Saint Petersburg University

Activity start date

1864

Activity end date

1886

Place of birth

Grodno

Date of birth

1835

Place of death

Kiev

Date of death

1887

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/V.%20Girgas/collection

Descriptive card

Vladimir Fedorovich Girgas (1835–1887) was a Russian Orientalist, linguist, specialist in Arabic studies. In 1854, he enrolled at the Oriental Faculty of the St. Petersburg University and graduated from it in 1858. In 1859, he went to Paris for two years to study Arabic and Turkish languages. His interest in Arabic studies formed under the influence of Caussin de Perceval and Joseph Toussaint Reinaud. In 1873, he defended his Doctor thesis titled ‘Essays in the Grammar System of Arabs’, where he systematized and analyzed material of previously not published basic Arabic grammar treatises. Together with V. V. Rosen, Girgas prepared the fundamental ‘Arab Chrestomathy’ (1875-1876); he also composed ‘The Dictionary to Arab Chrestomathy and the Qur'an’ (1881), ‘A Survey of Arabic Literature' (1875), and translated a course on Islamic Law ‘Basics of the Muslim Law, According to the Doctrines of Imams Abu Khanifa and Shafi’i’ (1882).

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina