Konstantin Bogdanov

Konstantin Anatolevich Bogdanov (; 30 March 1963 – 21 February 2026) was a Russian anthropologist and philologist whose areas of investigation covered Russian culture, including folklore, rhetoric, and the history of science and humanities. He also researched the history of social thought in 18th–20th-century Russia.

Early life and education Konstantin Bogdanov was born on 30 March 1963 in Leningrad, USSR (later Saint Petersburg, Russia). He obtained his undergraduate degree in classical philology and Russian language and literature at Saint Petersburg State University. Bogdanov became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1992, Bogdanov completed his PhD with the dissertation: “Magic Spelling in Russian Folklore: A Structural Analysis". The same year, he became a leading researcher for the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1994 to 1995, Bogdanov was a senior lecturer for the State University of Trade Unions for the Humanities in Saint Petersburg. During this time, he obtained a grant from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and produced an investigation of social thought in 19th-century Russia. Bogdanov continued his post-doctoral work with the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1998. He produced another dissertation, "Russian Folklore; Semiotics of Reality” in 2002.

Monographs Vox Populi. The Folklore Genres of Soviet Culture. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Moscow. 2009. Crocodiles in Russia. A History of Exoticism and Loan Words. Moscow: NLO, 2006. 352 pp. Rec.: Andrew Khan, in: Anthropological Forum, Nr. 8, 2008; Andrei Martynov in : NG ex libris, 21 September 1006; S.D. in: Literatura, Nr. 09, 2006. Sergey Prokhorov in: Nevskoye Vremya, 24.05.06; Sergey Shpalov in: Kultura, Nr. 21, 1-7.07.06; Olga Kadikina in: Krug Chteniya, 30.05.06; Vsevolod Brodsky in: Expert On-line: http://www.expert.ru/printissues/expert/2006/19/book_reptiliiya. Physicians, Patients, Readers: Pathographical Texts of Russian Culture of 18 -19th Centuries. Moscow: OGI, 2005, 520 pp. Rec.: Andrei Topotrkov in: NLO, Nr. 85, 2007; Zakharine, Dmitri in: Anthropological Forum, Nr. 6, 2006, P. 381-386; Anna Kusnecova in: Znamya, Nr. 11, 2005. Everyday Life and Mythology: Studies on Semiotics of Folklore Reality. St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo, 2001, 438 pp. Aratus. Phaenomena. Ancient Greek Text with Russian Translation, Introduction and line-by-line Commentary. St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2000, 252 pp. Homo Tacens. Anthropology of Silence. St. Petersburg: Russian Christian Institute for the Humanities Press, 1998, 354 pp. Money in Russian Folklore, St. Petersburg: Bell, 1995, 125 pp.

The full publication list is on the Homepage University of Contance:https://web.archive.org/web/20110604214934/http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/LitWiss/Slavistik/Bogdanov/Bibliographie.html