Aaron Jakowlewitsch Gurevich

Aaron Jakowlewitsch Gurewitsch ( Russian Арон Яковлевич Гуревич ; * May 12, 1924 in Moscow ; † August 5, 2006 ibid) was a Russian cultural scientist and Medievalist of Jewish origin.

He has been studying history in his hometown since 1945, where he received his doctorate in 1950 and qualified as a professor in 1962. After a professorship in the history of the Middle Ages at the Pedagogical Institute of the central Russian city of Tver (from 1931 to 1990 Kalinin ), he became a senior research assistant at the Institute for General History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. The focus of his research was the social and mental history of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.

Fonts (selection)

The world view of medieval man. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1978 ( Fundus-Reihe 55/56/57; original edition: Moscow 1972), 5th, unchanged edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42350-7 .
Medieval Folk Culture: Problems to Research. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1986 ( Fundus series 101/102; original edition: Moscow 1981), ISBN 3-364-00023-9 .
The individual in the European Middle Ages. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37889-7 .
Heavenly and earthly life: imagery of the scriptless man in the 13th century. The examples. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1996, ISBN 90-5705-002-1 .
Mute witnesses of the Middle Ages: worldview and culture of the common people . Böhlau, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-412-14496-7 .

Web links

Literature by and about Aaron Jakowlewitsch Gurewitsch in the catalog of the German National Library
A look at history. A conversation with the medievalist Aaron Gurjewitsch . Interview and photo by Martin Ebner, first publication: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 13, 1996

Individual evidence

↑ Aaron J. Gurjewitsch: Medieval folk culture. Research problems (= Fundus books . Volume 101/102 ). Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1986, DNB 011531363 , p. 415 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gurewitsch, Aaron Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Арон Яковлевич Гуревич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian cultural scientist and mediaevalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 2006
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Aaron J. Gurjewitsch: Medieval folk culture. Research problems (= Fundus books . Volume 101/102 ). Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1986, DNB 011531363 , p. 415 .