Bernhard Borissowitsch Kafenhaus

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Bernhard Borisovich Kafenhaus ( Russian Бернгард Борисович Кафенгауз ; born July 1, jul. / 13. July  1894 greg. In Proskurov ; † 27. June 1969 in Moscow ) was a Russian historian and university lecturer .

Life

Kafenhaus came from a Jewish family. In 1913 he began studying at the historical - philological faculty of Moscow University (MGU). He specialized in Russian history . His teachers were Michail Michailowitsch Bogoslowski , Juri Wladimirowitsch Gauthier and Alexei Ivanovich Jakowlew . Kafenhaus graduated in 1920 and was then an aspirant at the Institute for History of the Russian Association of Research Institutes for Social Sciences (RANION). He also worked as a statistician and as a hiking guide and educator in a children's colony.

1924–1935 Kafenhaus was a research assistant in the research institute of the People's Commissariat for Trade of the USSR .

In 1936 Kafenhaus became a lecturer at the MGU's historical faculty. He prepared the scientific edition of the book manuscript written by Iwan Tichonowitsch Possoschkow in 1724 on poverty and wealth, which appeared in 1937. In 1938 Kafenhaus defended his candidate dissertation on the work of Ivan Tichonowitsch Possoschkows.

From 1940 to 1965 Kafenhaus was a research assistant at the Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . During the German-Soviet War , Kafenhaus collected materials about the Demidows in the archives of the Urals . In 1946 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the Demidov economy and the development of the Ural metallurgical industry . In 1948 he was appointed professor . The focus of his work was the socio-economic history of Russia in the 18th century, the history of Pskov and the study of sources . He participated in the preparation of a number of important editions on Russian history.

In 1954, Kafenhaus received the Order of the Red Labor Banner .

Kafenhaus was married to Tamara Andrejewna née Prudkowskaja (1893-1969), who was the younger sister of the painter Nadeschda Andrejewna Udalzowa and who had studied at the higher artistic-technical workshops without a degree . Her son Juri (1929–2008) became an artist . Kafenhaus's older brother was the economist and politician Lev Borissowitsch Kafenhaus .

Kafenhaus was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Кафенгауз Бернгард (Борис) Борисович (accessed November 7, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b Большая российская энциклопедия: КАФЕНГА́УЗ Бернгард (Борис) Борисович (accessed November 7, 2018).
  3. ↑ РУССКИЕ ЕВРЕИ: ПЕРСОНАЛИИ 6. Иоффе, Меер - Копытман, Марк (accessed November 6, 2018).
  4. ↑ Посошков И. Т .: Книга о скудости и богатстве . 1724 ( mirkin.ru [PDF; accessed November 5, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Kafenhaus BB: И. Т. Посошков. Жизнь и деятельность . Изд-во АН СССР, Moscow 1951.
  6. ↑ Kafenhaus BB: История хозяйства Демидовых в XVIII – XIX вв. : Опыт исследования по истории уральской металлургии Т. 1 . Изд-во АН СССР, Moscow, Leningrad 1949.
  7. ↑ Кафенгауз, Юрий Бернгардович (accessed November 6, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Kafenhaus, Bernhard Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кафенгауз, Бернгард Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Proskurov
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1969
Place of death Moscow