К биографии Макса Фасмера: Тартуский период (1918–1921) [Max Vasmer: The Tartu Years (1918—1920)]

Abstract

Max Vasmer’s life has been studied in a fragmented and uneven way. One of the lesser-known periods is the one that began in 1918, when Vasmer left the University of Saratov and his home in St. Petersburg and applied for a position at what was then the Landesuniversität der drei baltischen Provinzen (University of Tartu). This article gives an overview of the importance Vasmer attached to preserving European scholarship, his opposition to anything that stood in the way of this, and his personal ethics at critical
moments in history. It also provides the readers with the previously unpublished application letter by Vasmer from July 5, 1918.

The study is funded in whole by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as part of the project Slavic Studies in Exchange: Austria and Russia 1849—1939 (I 5309-G).