Alexander Hilferding, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Hilferding

Russian linguist and folklorist

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1831

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 20-Jun-1872

Profession: writer, diplomat, historian, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alexander Hilferding (Russian: ????????? ????????? ?????????´??; 14 July 1831 in Warsaw, Congress Poland – 2 July 1872 in Kargopol) was a Russian linguist and folklorist of German descent who collected some 318 bylinas in the Russian North.
A native of Warsaw, he assisted Nikolay Milyutin in reforming the administration of Congress Poland.
In the late 1850s, he was a Russian diplomatic agent in Bosnia; he published several books about the country and its folklore, thanks to the collaborative efforts of Prokopije Cokorilo.
Hilferding was elected into the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1856.
He died of typhoid while collecting folk songs in Kargopol, in the north of European Russia, and was later reburied in the Novodevichy Cemetery, St.
Petersburg.
Hilferding's collection of Slavonic manuscripts is preserved in the Russian National Library.