title: The Mystery of Lomonosov’s Date of Birth
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metadata.value: Krotov, Pavel A.
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metadata.value: 2024-04-08T14:34:37Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Krotov P. A. The Mystery of Lomonosov’s Date of Birth. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 1, pp. 5–21. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.101 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45258
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metadata.value: Officially, the date of birth of M. V. Lomonosov is now considered to have been November
  8 (19), 1711, although it is stipulated that this is a conditional date since the metric book where
  it was recorded was lost in the 18th century. This date of birth was chosen in 1911 by the Academy
  of Sciences for the jubilee celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the luminary
  of science, according to the assumption of Academician M. I. Sukhomlinov (1896). The author
  of the article found out that the now accepted 1711 year of birth of Lomonosov is the result of
  calculations by his colleague at the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Academician
  Ya. Shtelin (1709–1785), made after the death of Lomonosov in 1765. An analysis of all previously
  known and newly identified sources and all existing versions of his birth date allowed
  us to put forward a new version. The author of the article shows that Lomonosov, in certain
  circumstances, whether he was ordained a priest or appointed to the position of professor, it
  turned out to be advantageous to exaggerate his too undignified age. The conducted research
  allowed to challenge the assumption of Ya. Shtelin (1765) about the birth in 1711 of the great
  Russian scientist-encyclopedist, poet-innovator Lomonosov and based on the study of reliable
  documentary materials (the certificate of the metric book about his death, the memoirs of the
  professor himself in the transfer Ya. Shtelin) to assert that he was born in 1714. It probably
  happened days earlier or on the very day of the memory of St. Michael Malein on July 12 (23),
  or on the eve or on the very day of the memory of St. Archangel Michael on November 8 (19),
  1714. Both versions should now be considered equivalent.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 69; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: M. V. Lomonosov
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metadata.value: Ya. Shtelin
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metadata.value: Russian Academy of Sciences
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: St. Petersburg Academic University
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Moscow University
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metadata.value: The Mystery of Lomonosov’s Date of Birth
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metadata.value: Article
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