Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing, Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Historians, Nationalism, Chemistry, Chemists
- Curriculum: 18th Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
Article abstract: Through his reform of the Russian literary language, his scientific investigations, and his reinterpretation of early Russian history, Lomonosov was at the beginning of modern Russian intellectual history and a founder of Russian nationalism.
Early Life
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born in 1711 the son of prosperous peasant parents near Kholmogory, Russia. His father was a fisherman. Lomonosov seems to have been a voracious reader at an early age, and gradually he came to outgrow the small village of his birth. In 1730, he went to...
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