Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev

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Alexander A. Vasiliev

Alexander Vasiliev (originally Russian Александр Александрович Васильев / Alexander Alexandrovich Vasilyev , scientific. Transliteration Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vasil'ev ; born September 22 ^{. Jul} / 4. October  1870 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † the 30th March 1953 in Washington, DC ) was one of the most important Byzantinists of the 1st half of the 20th century.

Vasiliev studied Byzantine Studies with Vasily Wassilewski and Arabic at the University of Saint Petersburg . From 1892 to 1897 he worked as a high school teacher. From 1897 to 1900 he studied in Paris and received his doctorate in St. Petersburg in 1901. In 1902 he accompanied Nikolai Marr on a research trip to St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of the Sinai . From 1904 to 1912 he taught at Jurjew University . From 1912 to 1922 he taught at the St. Petersburg Pedagogical Academy, from 1917 to 1925 at the University of St. Petersburg, from 1919 he was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . During a visit to Paris in 1925 Michael Rostovtzeff convinced him to emigrate. This also gave him a professorship at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . After his retirement in 1938, Vasiliev worked in Dumbarton Oaks from 1944 .

Two of his works, his investigations into the relationship between Byzantines and Arabs and his history of the Byzantine Empire , are still among the standard works on Byzantine history.

Publications (selection)

• Византия и арабы . 2 volumes. Тип. И. Н. Скороходова, St. Petersburg 1900–1902 ( digitized version )
  • Vol. 1: Политическия отношения Византии и арабов за время Аморийской династии. 1900
  • Vol. 2: Политическия отношения Византии и арабов за время Македонской династии. 1902
  • French edition: Byzance et les Arabes
    • Vol. 1. La dynastie d'Amorium (820-867) . Edition française préparé par Henri Grégoire et Marius Canard, avec le concours de C. Nallino, Ernest Honigmann et C. Backvis. Brussels 1935
    • Vol. 2, 1: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à l'époque de la dynastie macédonienne . Brussels 1968
    • Vol. 2, 2: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à l'époque de la dynastie macédonienne. Extraits des sources arabes . Brussels 1950
• История Византийской империи . 3 volumes. 1923-1925
  • English edition: History of the Byzantine Empire . Translated from the Russian by Mrs. S. Ragozin. 2 volumes. Madison 1928-1929
  • French edition: Histoire de l'Empire Byzantin . Traduit du russe by P. Brodin et A. Bourguina, 2 volumes. Paris 1932
• The Goths in the Crimea . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1936
• Justin the First. An introduction to the Epoch of Justinian the Great . Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1950

literature

• Milton V. Anastos : Alexander A. Vasiliev: a personal sketch . In: The Russian Review 13, 1954, pp. 59-63.
• Sirarpie The Nersessian : Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev, 1867–1953. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 9/10, 1956, pp. 1–21 with list of publications ( digitized version ).
• Ionut Alexandru Tudorie: Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (1867-1953). The Patriarch of the Byzantine Studies. In: Byzantino-Slavica. Revue internationale des études byzantines 70, 2012, pp. 283–323.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Vasiliev, Alexander Aleksandrovic .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev's estate in Dumbarton Oaks