Fyodor Braun

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Friedrich Braun or Fyodor Aleksandrovich Braun (1862–1942) was a Russian-German scholar who provided philological and mythological backing for the Normanist theory.

Braun came to study Scandinavian and Germanic epics on the advice of Alexander Veselovsky. He graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1885 (with a gold medal for his thesis on Beowulf) and was a lecturer at the Bestuzhev Courses. He was appointed dean of the university's department of history and philology in 1905. His major writings, including an 1899 monograph on the relations between the Goths and Ancient Slavs, concern the history of Germanic peoples in Eastern Europe.^[1]

In 1920 Professor Braun was sent on a business trip to Germany, where he decided to remain.^[2] He joined the staff of the Leipzig University in 1922 and published a paper in support of the Japhetic theory.^[1] He retired from teaching 10 years later.^[2] Elena Rydzevskaya and Viktor Zhirmunsky were among his disciples.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 5681987 LCCN: nb2008008661 ISNI: 0000 0001 1589 2804 GND: 116416718

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Name	Braun, Fyodor
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Date of birth	1862
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Date of death	1942
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