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James St.Clair-Sobell fonds
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6.5 cm of textual records
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Born in England, James St. Clair-Sobell received a B.A. (1935) and MA (1937) from Melbourne. In 1946, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Graz. He became one of Britain's most accomplished linguists and philologists. St. Clair-Sobell was appointed to the newly-created Chair in Russian and Slavonic Studies in the late 1940s at UBC, and he later developed the Department of Slavonic Studies.
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Some materials originally give to Dr. St. Clair-Sobell by Mrs. A.L. Durnovo. The records were acquired by the University Archives from Irene Reid of the UBC Department of Slavonic Studies in 1975.
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Fonds consists of several essays and one publication. It includes an annotated copy of a paper written by St. Clair-Sobell, an essay about Leo Tolstoy, a biography of Ornest D. Durnovo with related correspondence, and written remarks by a Soviet commentator on one of St. Clair-Sobell's papers. The publication is a course calendar from Karl-Franzens-Reichsuniversitat (University of Graz, in Austria) for the winter semester 1944/45.
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The essays are written in Russian. The course calendar is in German.
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- Durnovo, Ornest D. (Subject)
- Tolstoy, Leo (Subject)
- University of British Columbia. Dept. of Slavonic Studies (Subject)