Viktor Petrov

Infobox Writer
name = Viktor Petrov


caption =
pseudonym = Viktor Domontovych, Viktor Ber
birthdate = Birth date|1894|10|10|mf=y
birthplace = Dnipropetrovsk, Russian Empire
nationality = flagicon|Ukraine Ukrainian
deathdate = 1969
deathplace = Kiev, Soviet Union
occupation = novelist, literary critic, philosopher, archeologist
genre = Ukrainian literature
movement =
notableworks = Doctor Seraficus
influences = Panteleimon Kulish

Viktor Petrov ( _uk. Віктор Петров 1894-1969) was a prominent Ukrainian existentialist writer. He signed his works with pen names Viktor Domontovych ( _uk. Віктор Домонтович) and Viktor Ber ( _uk. Віктор Бер). Together with Valerian Pidmohylny Petrov is considered to be the founder of the Ukrainian intellectual novel. Although Petrov is remembered as a writer today, during his life he was a scientist in the first place. He wrote papers on archaeology, anthropology, history, philosophy and literature.

Biography

Viktor Petrov was born on October 10 in Yekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk today). In 1918 he graduated from historical-philological faculty of Kiev University. Later he worked at the ethnographic committee of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 1930 he obtained his doctorate for a study titled "Panteleymon Kulish in the 50s. Life. Ideology. Creativity". After the World War II Petrov stayed in emigration in Germany, during which he was a professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. He was also one of the founding members of the Ukrainian artist movement, a literary organization of the Ukrainian intellectual diaspora. At a later time Petrov disappeared from Germany under unknown circumstances. Later, it appeared that he returned to the Soviet Union and kept working at the Institute of Archaeology in Kiev. Petrov died in 1969 and is buried in Kiev.

Writings

Novels

* Without a foundation ("Без ґрунту") (1942-1943) [ uk icon "Bez gruntu," [http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/Domontovych/Bez_gruntu/index.html the book in pdf format] ]
* Little girl with a bear ( _uk. "Дівчина з ведмедиком") (1928)
* Doctor Seraficus ( _uk. "Доктор Серафікус") (1928-1929, published in 1947)
* Alina and Kostomarov ( _uk. "Аліна й Костомаров") (1929)
* Novels of Kulish ( _uk. "Романи Куліша") (1930)

cientific publications

* Origin of the Ukrainian Nation
* Scythians - language and ethnicity
* Ethnogenesis of Slavs

References