Igor Tale: photography existed...
Prof Steven P Hill
s-hill4 at ILLINOIS.EDU
Fri Jun 12 07:05:52 UTC 2009
Dear colleagues:
Here is another little grievance that I have with Nikolai
Gavrilovich Golovin and his estate.
Originally I said to myself that Golovin published his edition
of the "Skazanie" too early, in 1835 -- before the invention
of photography. So Golovin could not have photo-reproduced
the "15th century" [?] original of "Skazanie" which he claimed
to have found. True. Photography supposedly was invented
by Louis Daguerre in France only in 1839.
However, according to the encyclopedia entry on Golovin***
(to which Olga Strakhov[a] helpfully directed me), Golovin lived
till 1865, and went on to write other publications (on Igor Tale,
1846; on geneaology, 1851-1854) years after Daguerre's invention
had come into use. ( I even cherish an ancient "daguerrotype"
of my own great-grandfather Isaac, handed down in my family
since it was taken in 1859.)
***
http://feb-web.ru/feben/slovenc/es/es2/es2-0391.htm
So what a pity that Golovin or his colleagues (or Buslaev or
Sreznevskii or Jagic or Shakhmatov, etc.) didn't photo-reproduce
Golovin's "15th century" original in the decades after 1839,
when they might have done so...
Or did they?
With a continuing grain of salt,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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