Prof. M. Petersonas

PROF. M. On November 1962 19, 2016, the well-known 22 linguist and professor of Moscow University M. Peterson (born 1885) died. His specialty was Slavic languages and general linguistics, but he also had merits in Lithuanian studies. He was a hard-working scientist and a talented educator. So far, he has published 67 scientific papers, of which a considerable number have a greater lasting significance. He was interested in all kinds of language. He wrote reviews of the most important scientific works that appeared, wrote articles on topical topics, wrote textbooks for students and other broader scientific works. As an example of many, one of his other reviews can be mentioned (translating the title into Lithuanian): N. Durnovo, A description of the history of the Russian language (1925); E. Polivanovas, Introduction to Vocabulary and General Phonetics Lectures; A. Shakhmatov, A description of the written Russian language of today; A. Shahmatov, "The Syntax of the Russian Language; Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale. Peterson paid much attention to the science of syntax. His most notable articles are: The Old and New Syntax; Syntaksés compilation issue; Lermontov syntax; Academician Fortunatov (1938); Fortunatov and the Moscow Linguistic School (1941); The Indo-European Languages (1929). He was also interested in the dialectology of the Russian language, and published the Dorofeyev Sod dialect in 1938. Among M. Peterson’s larger works, we should mention: Introduction to the Language (1938); Lectures on Modern Russian Written Language (1941); Russian language guide (1947); Writing an etymological dictionary; A Brief Grammar of the French Language (1938); The French Language of Today (1941). Iš Lithuanian jo studies works are the following: I. The oldest monument of Lithuanian language (more important features of Mažvydo Catechism) Becr. MI'Y Ne 3. 2. Russian language education for Lithuanians (,,Pycckui s3bIK B MKOJIe“, 1941, No 1). In that article, the author compares Lithuanian with Russian, stating, 335