Joseph Trofimov
Joseph Trofimov (1947, Lithuanian PSR – 2007, Daugavpils, Republic of Latvia) – Habilitated Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil. philol.), Professor of the Department of Literature and Culture of the Daugavpils University.
His areas of interest ranged from folklore to modern literature. In recent years he contribured a lot to the study of the history of the Orthodoxy and Old Belief. Was chairman of the Board of the Centre for Russian Culture (the House of Kallistratov) in Daugavpils.