Title: Bibliography of the Publications of Professor V. Minorsky
Author: Vladimir Fedorovich Minorsky
Place of publication: London
Publisher: University of London
Release date: 1953
This special issue of the Bulletin appears in honour of a double anniversary the seventy-fifth birthday of Professor Minorsky and the twentieth anniversary of his joining the School of Oriental Studies (as it then was).
It is an ; appropriate moment in his long and illustrious career for i his colleagues and friends to salute the rare qualities, both personal and academic, w-hich.have won for him the honour and. distinction which he so justly enjoys ; and tit is in (that spirit that those whoihave been able to contribute to this volume offer him the studies which it contains. They are intended as a slight recognition of the debt which the authors, and Orientalists generally, owe to Professor Minorsky's profound and wide-ranging scholarship.
Vladimir Minorsky was born on 5th February, 1877, in Korcheva, a small town on the Volga, now lying submerged at the bottom of the Moscow sea. He was educated in Moscow. As a gold medallist of the Fourth Grammar-Schoo.. [1]