GLUBOKOVSKIJ, NIKCLAJ NIKANOROVIČ. - Well-known Russian theologian, exegete and historian (1863-1937), recognized as an authority of the first rank among "Orthodox" theologians.
A doctor of theology of the Ecclesiastical Academy of Moscow, professor at the Ecclesiastical Academy and at the University of St. Petersburg, he was a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Ecclesiastical Academies of Moscow, Kiev and Kazan. He managed to leave Russia in 1921; he stayed in Finland, Germany and Czechoslovakia and taught for a short time at the University of Belgrade. From 1923 he resided in Sofia, where he became a professor at the University and where he died. He was numbered among the teachers of the Orthodox Theological Institute of Paris.
G., a layman, is a representative of official Russian theology of the old stamp. A significant fact: he, a theologian by profession, refused to recognize Chomjakov, the theological leader of the Slavophiles, as an authentic theologian. Although rather traditional, in his research he depended much more on Protestants than on Catholics. He sought the union of Christians, but firmly rejected the primacy of the Pope.
Among his most important works in Russian: *Il beato Teodoret, vescovo di Ciro. La sua vita ed attività letteraria**, (2 vols., Moscow 1890); La predica del Vangelo di s. Paolo Apostolo, secondo la sua origine e la sua essenza, (3 vols., St. Petersburg 1905-1-12). After the death of prof. A. P. Lopuchin he continued, from 1905, in a more scientific manner, L'Enciclopedia teologica ortodossa. He also wrote: Orthodoxy in its essence, in The Constructive Quarterly, 1913, pp. 282-305; 12 articles in the Godinik, Annuaire de l'Université de Sofia, VI, Faculté de théologie, nos. 1-14, 1923-37, mostly in Bulgarian, and for the most part devoted to St. Paul's letter to the Hebrews; La Chiesa Ortodossa e l'unione cristiana (ibid., 1 [1924], pp. 163-260); Dio-Verbo (exegesis of the prologue of St. John), in Il pensiero ortodosso, I, Paris 1928, pp. 89-121; and L'umiliazione di Cristo e la nostra salvezza (exegesis of Phil. 2, 3-11) ibid., II, ivi 1930, pp. 86-101 (cf. B. Schultze, La nuova osteriologia russa II-III, in Orient. Christ. periodica, 12 [1946], pp. 130-36).