Quotes:Voyevodsky, Leopold Franzovich

Zirkoff, Boris

Voyevodsky, Leopold Franzovich (1846-?). Russian historian. Graduated from St. Petersburg University, writing for his Master’s degree an essay on “Cannibalism in Greek Mythology,” 1874. His Doctor’s thesis was *Introduction to the Mythology of the Odyssey 401 (Vvedeniye v mifologiyu Odissei), Odessa, 1881. Was since 1882 Prof, of Classical Philology at the Univ, of Novorossiysk. His writings are valuable as a method of showing that many myths are a source of information regarding very ancient conditions of life in the history of a nation; however, his doctorate thesis attempted to explain Homer’s epic as a solar-lunar-star myth, which met with great opposition on the part of scholars. Other works: "On the so-called Homeric poems" (Odessa, 1876, in the Notes of the Univ, of Novor., Vol. XIX); "On the Origin of the Name of the Black Sea” (in the Works of the 6th Archeolog. Meeting at Odessa, Vol. II).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 400-401