Osip Bodyansky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Osip Bodyansky

Russian-Ukrainian writer

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1808

Place of Birth: Varva, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 06-Sep-1877

Profession: writer, poet, historian, translator, literary historian

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Osip Maksimovich Bodyansky (Russian: ???? ?????????? ?????????; 1808–1877) was a notable Russian Imperial Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent who studied and taught at the Imperial Moscow University.
Bodyansky's close friends included Nikolai Gogol, Sergey Aksakov, Mikhail Katkov, Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Maksimovich and Pavel Jozef Šafárik.
He was elected a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1854.