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Vladimir Ivanovich Dal was a Russian lexicographer, speaker of many languages, Turkologist, and founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. During his lifetime, he compiled and documented Russian oral traditions, many of which became part of modern folklore.
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science · Russian lexicographer (1801–1872) · lexicographer · linguist · philosopher · dialectologist · writer · physician · ethnologist · children's writer · military personnel · collector of fairy tales · also Vladimir Dal, Vladimir Dahl, Vladimir Ivanovich Dal, Vladimir Ivanovitch Dal’, Dal
Born 10 November 1801 · Died 22 September 1872 · Q326499
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Google celebrated his 216th birthday with a Google Doodle
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The State Literary Museum in Moscow, Russia received a new official name: the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
A Luhansk (Ukraine) university was named after Dal, the East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University (from his name in Ukrainian)
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A museum in Moscow, Russia, was opened in honor of Dal
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42 years after Dal's death, during the blood libel trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis in Kiev, the then 70-year-old report was published in Saint Petersburg under the title Notes on Ritual Murders
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Died 1872-09-22.
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Just 10 copies of a 100-page report, intended only for the Czar and senior officials, were submitted
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The Damascus affair had resulted in the accusation that Jews use the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes, and Nicholas I instructed his officials, especially Vladimir Dal, to thoroughly investigate the claim
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Dal was elected to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Began studying medicine at Dorpat University; he participated as a military doctor in the Russo-Turkish War and in the campaign against Poland in 1831–1832
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Born 1801-11-10.
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