On the International Relations of A.N. Veselovsky and Perception of His Work Abroad in the 19th Century

Abstract

The article highlights the parts of A.N. Veselovsky’s biography that reflect his connections with Western European science, cites the facts from his personal and epistolary communication, and estimates his contribution to the major scientific activities of the second half of the 19th century in the context of perception of such works as Dante and the Symbolic Poeret of Catholicism (1865), Villa Alberti. New Materials for the Characterization of the Literary and Social Breakthrough in the Italian Life of the 14th–15th century (1870), Experiments on the History of the Development of the Christian Legend (1875–1877), From the History of the Novel and the Story (1886, 1888) and others. A.N. Veselovsky sought to expand contacts with Western European scholars to exchange information, new methodologies, and conceptual and theoretical models. He published about 40 articles in foreign languages and contributed to the introduction of Slavic and Byzantine material to the world science, as well as to promoting Russian philology abroad.

Keywords

• history of 19th century philology
• a.n. veselovsky
• romance
• slavistics
• historical poetics.