Draft:Pavel Kokovtsov

Pavel Konstantinovich Kokovtsov (Па́вел Константи́нович Коко́вцов; 1 July 1861 – 1 January 1942) was a Russian orientalist who specialized in Hebraic studies and Semitology; he was the founder of the St. Petersburg school of Semitology and member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society.

Biography
After graduating from The First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium in 1880, he studied at the Faculty of Oriental languages, at the Hebrew-Syrian-Arabic Department, under Daniel Chwolson and Victor Rosen (1880–1884).

In 1942, he died in besieged Leningrad.

Works

 * Catalogue des livres hébraîques : (edités jusqu'à l'an 1892) de la bibliothèque de l'Institut des études orientales de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS
 * Christlich-palästinische Fragmente, Berlin, 1905
 * Nouveaux fragments syropalestiniens de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg
 * Nouvel essai d'interprétation de la 2e inscription araméenne de Nirab
 * Short History of Syriac Literature
 * A New Hebrew Document about Khazars and Khazar-Russian-Byzantine Relations. St. Petersburg, 1913. (in Russian)
 * Hebrew-Khazar Correspondence in the Tenth Century. Leningrad, 1932. (in Russian)