Osip Bodyansky | |
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 Portrait, 1878 | |
| Born | 31 October 1808 |
| Died | 6 September 1877 (aged 68) |
| Education | Doctor of Science (1855) Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1834) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Philology, history |
| Institutions | Imperial Moscow University |
| Thesis | On the time of origin of the Slavonic script |
Osip Maksimovich Bodyansky (Russian: Осип Максимович Бодянский; Ukrainian: Осип Максимович Бодянський, romanized: Osyp Maksymovych Bodianskyi; 31 October 1808 – 6 September 1877) was a Russian Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent who studied and taught at the Imperial Moscow University. Bodyansky's close friends included Nikolai Gogol, Sergey Aksakov, Mikhail Katkov, Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Maksimovich and Pavel Jozef Šafárik. He was elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg) in 1854.