Alexander Vasiliev (historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Vasiliev (historian)

American historian

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1867

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 30-May-1953

Profession: historian, arabist, university teacher, orientalist, byzantinist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Alexander Vasiliev (historian)

  • For other persons of a similar name, see Alexander Vasilyev (disambiguation). Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (Russian: ??????´??? ??????´??????? ????´????; 4 October 1867 (N.S.) – 30 March 1953) was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century.
  • His History of the Byzantine Empire (vol.
  • 1–2, 1928) remains one of a few comprehensive accounts of the entire Byzantine history, on the par with those authored by Edward Gibbon and Fyodor Uspensky. Vasiliev was born in Saint Petersburg.
  • He studied under one of the earliest professional Byzantinists, Vasily Vasilievsky, at the University of St Petersburg and later taught Arabic language there.
  • Between 1897 and 1900, he furthered his education in Paris.
  • In 1902, he accompanied Nicholas Marr in his trip to Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai. During his stay at the Tartu University (1904–12), Vasiliev prepared and published a highly influential monograph, Byzantium and the Arabs (1907).
  • He also worked in the Russian Archaeology Institute, established by Fyodor Uspensky in Constantinople.
  • In 1912, he moved to the St Petersburg University as a professor.
  • He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1919. In 1925, during his visit to Paris, Vasiliev was persuaded by Michael Rostovtzeff to emigrate to the West.
  • It was Rostovtzeff who ensured a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for him.
  • Several decades later, Vasiliev moved to work in Dumbarton Oaks.
  • Towards the end of his life, he was elected President of the Nikodim Kondakov Institute in Prague and of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines.

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