Biography Dahl family

Text: Natalya Sokolova on November 22 is celebrated from the birth of Vladimir Dal - a lexicographer, linguist, ethnographer, doctor, homeopath, pathologist, a person of amazing fate and biography.

Despite all his enthusiasm for medicine and linguistics, and maybe thanks to, he knew how to love passionately and was an exemplary family man. His father, the Danish Johann Christian Dahl, served as a doctor there. The name Ivan received the name in Russia, Dal Sr. married Maria Freitag from the family of Russified Germans and French Huguenots. Vladimir's father knew eight languages, his mother spoke five languages.

Dahl - a man with non -Russian roots amazingly felt the Russian word. He learned more than a dozen languages ​​in his entire life. In family life, the scientist was not always happy. The first time he married when he was a little over thirty, for great love in the summer Julia Andre Andre, who belonged to the ancient noble family. He met her in St. Petersburg, at the Balu in the house of the poet Gazykov and fell in love with the young black -eyed beauty.

She was a relative of one of the Dorpat professors, in whose house Vladimir Ivanovich often visited. So Dahl knew her as a child. Their family idyll was interrupted by the departure of the spouse from life. The second birth of Julia gave serious complications. She was gone when she was only 22 years old. No one could help her. Even a distant doctor. After the death of his wife, the far was closed, did not appear in the light for a long time.

But the son of Leo and daughter Julia became orphans, and Vladimir Ivanovich willy-nilly thought about finding a mother for her children. In the year, he married the daughter of the Hero of the Patriotic War of the year Ekaterina Sokolova. Her father, Lev Vasilievich, was sick. Only Vladimir Ivanovich was ready to help him - he conducted a successful operation. Of course, daughter Catherine could not help but fall in love with a young doctor.

Darly was looking at her for a long time - after all, the age difference between them was 18 years old. They got married in the year. Ekaterina Lvovna was a graduate of the Patriotic Institute. They had three children - Maria, Olga, Catherine. But Catherine did not accept children from her first marriage, which was very annoyed by Dahl. She was jealous of her husband to glory, women, often complained about her health, loved to stay in the room alone and not to leave there for several days.

But he continued to love her. In the year, the wife of Dahl died. And on the night of the funeral, Dahl broke the paralysis and soon he died.