Vladimir Beneshevich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Beneshevich

Scholar of Byzantine history and canon law

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1874

Place of Birth: Druya, Belarus

Date of Death: 27-Jan-1938

Profession: historian, legal historian, canon law jurist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Vladimir Nicolayevich Beneshevich (Russian: ???????? ?????????? ?????????; August 9, 1874 – January 17, 1938) was a scholar of Byzantine history and canon law, and a philologer and paleographer of the manuscripts in that sphere. Beneshevich was a corresponding-member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1914, of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1924, and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and of the Strassburg Academy of Sciences from 1929. Beneshevich was executed by the Soviet regime in 1938, and is one of the Eastern Orthodox Church's "New Martyrs".