Ivan Semenovich Gorlitskii

In 1703-1717 he studied at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. In 1717 by decree of Peter I he was sent to Amsterdam for studies, and then to Paris, where he completed the full course of philosophy. He also studied mathematics, law, and theology. He returned to St. Petersburg in 1722 and was appointed to the Synod and in 1724 became a translator at the Academy of Sciences. He translated official documents, works on mathematics, astronomy, and geography from French and Latin. From 1725 to 1727 he was a teacher of Latin at the gymnasium of St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He compiled a French grammar, which he dedicated to Catherine I (unpublished), translated Decomble's French grammar (1730). In 1739 he translated into Latin the "Book of Degrees" (“Stepennaia kniga”), and in 1740 from Latin into Russian the "Preface to Psalms" (“Predislovie na psalmy”) (both remained in manuscript). The manuscripts of his theological works and translations from the 1760s and 1770s have been preserved.