Alexander Pypin

Alexander Pypin
Александр Николаевич Пыпин
Alexander Pypin. Portrait by Nikolai Ge
Born	(1833-04-06)April 6, 1833 Saratov, Russian Empire
Died	December 9, 1904(1904-12-09) (aged 71) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Occupation(s)	literary historian, ethnographer, editor, author
Years active	1860–1904
Spouse	Y.P. Gurskalin

Alexander Nikolayevich Pypin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Пы́пин; 6 April 1833 – 9 December 1904) was a Russian literary historian, ethnographer, journalist and editor; a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and (briefly, in 1904), its vice-president. Nikolai Chernyshevsky was his cousin on the maternal side.

Pypin actively contributed to Sovremennik (which he edited in 1863–1866), Vestnik Evropy, and Otechestvennye Zapiski. Among his most acclaimed works are the History of Slavic Literatures (Vols. 1–2, 1879–1881, with Vladimir Spasovich), the History of Russian Ethnography (Vols. 1890–1892) and the History of Russian Literature (Vols. 1–4, 1911–1913, posthumously).^{[1] [2]}