Valery Durov Explained

Valery Durov
Birth Name:Valery Semenovich Durov
Birth Date:13 July 1945
Birth Place:Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Children:Pavel Durov
Nikolai Durov
Fields:Latin literature, History of ancient Rome

Valery Semenovich Durov (Russian: Вале́рий Семёнович Ду́ров; 13 July 1945[1]) is a Russian antiquarian, philologist, and academic (Honored Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation). From 1992 until 2013, he was head of the Department of Classical Philology at St. Petersburg State University.

Career

Durov graduated from the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University in 1968, was in graduate school at the Department of Classical Philology and in 1974 he defended his thesis "The Tenth Satire of Juvenal".[2]

His research interests include history and literature of ancient Rome, and he lectures and conducts seminars on the history of Roman literature and the various aspects of the Latin language (syntax of a simple sentence, case syntax, style, etc.).[3]

Family

He is the father of Pavel Durov, the creator of the VK social network and the Telegram messaging service, as well as Nikolai Durov, a mathematician.[4]

Key publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Сегодня исполняется 70 лет моему отцу Валерию Семеновичу Дурову. ВКонтакте. Павел Дуров. 2015-07-13. 2015-08-18.
  2. Book: Поздравляем! . Санкт-Петербургский университет. 2005 .
  3. http://phil.spbu.ru/o-fakultete-1/struktura-fakulteta/kafedry/klassicheskoi-filologii/durov-valerii-semenovich Дуров Валерий Семенович — Филологический факультет Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета
  4. Web site: Профиль Павла Дурова на сайте конференции "Digital Life Design". en . 2015-01-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120122225740/http://www.dld-conference.com/speakers/digital-business/pavel-durov_aid_3087.html . 22 January 2012.