Glubokovskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Nikanorovich

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GLUBOKOVSKIĬ, NIKOLAĬ NIKANOROVICH

19th-and 20th-century Russian lay theologian; b. N. Russia, Dec. 6, 1863; d. Sofia, March 18, 1937. Of a poor family, Nicholas studied at the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy and obtained a degree in theology. He became a professor in the Ecclesiastical Academy of Petersburg, but left Russia in 1921 and taught at the University of Belgrade (192123), then at Sofia until his death. He also lectured at the Orthodox Russian Institute of St. Sergius in Paris. His theological teaching was traditional in tendency, but he took an active part in Russian Church affairs and in the nascent ecumenical movement.

His first important work was a study of theodoret of cyr (2 v. Moscow 1890). On the death of A. P. Lopukhin (1905) he became the responsible editor of the Russian Theological Encyclopedia, and published down to the letter L. A commentary he wrote on the Epistle to the Hebrews was published in the Theological Annual of the University of Sofia (Godišnik 6.114: 192337); he wrote also a tract on the Orthodox Church and the Reunion of Christians (1924). He also published exegetical essays in Pravoslavnaja Mysl ' (Orthodox Thought) on St. John's Gospel 1.118 (Paris 1928) and on the Epistle to the Philippians 2.511 (Paris 1930).

Bibliography: i. lagovsky, Viestnik 34 (Paris 1937) 1721.

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