ALEKSANDROV, Aleksandr Ivanovič (Anastasij). Baiterjakovo, gub. Kazan 16/28.4.1861 — Petrograd 23.6.1918. Russian Slavist and IE Scholar. Son of a priest. School in Kazan, from 1879 studies at Kazan (under Baudouin de Courtenay and Kruševskij, kand. 1883), then at Doormat (Tartu). PD 1886 Tartu, soon (1886) Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Sanskrit at Harkov (Kharkiv.) In 1888-89 Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics at Kazan, then 1889-96 eo, Professor of Slavic Philology there, 1896-1911 ord. Professor. Now turned to religion, became a monk as Anastasij and Professor of Church Slavonic and Russian at Kazan Spiritual Academy, 1912 its Rector..
Publications: Wrote on Indo-European, Slavic, Russian and Lithuanian, in Russian and occasionally in German.
Sources: Biografiĉeskij slovar’ Kazan 21-25; Estonian and *Russian Wikipedia (both with photo).
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