Dominic Lieven

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Dominic Cristoph Bogdan Lieven (born January 19, 1952 ) is a British Eastern European historian .

Life

Dominic Lieven comes from a branch of the German-Baltic Lieven family who emigrated to England . His father was the BBC journalist Alexander Lieven , and his siblings include the psychologist Elena Lieven and the political scientist Anatol Lieven . He attended the Catholic Downside School in Stratton-on-the-Fosse and studied history at Christ's College at the University of Cambridge , after which he received a Kennedy scholarship to Harvard University in 1973/74 .

Lieven has been working at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since 1978 , which appointed him Professor of Russian Studies in 1993. He was invited to the University of Tokyo and Harvard University as a guest lecturer , and to Germany as a Humboldt Fellow , where he conducted research in Göttingen and Munich . He is a Fellow of the British Academy (since 2001) and a Fellow of Trinity College (Cambridge) .

Lieven was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2009 for his study Russia Against Napoleon .

Fonts

  • Russia and the Origins of the First World War . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983
  • Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989
  • The Aristocracy in Europe 1815/1914 . New York: Columbia University Press, 1993
    • Farewell to power and dignity. The European nobility 1815–1914 . From the English by Walter Brumm. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1995
  • Nicholas II . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994
  • Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals . New Haven, Conn .: Yale University Press, 2001
  • Russia Against Napoleon. The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 . New York: Viking, 2010
    • Russia against Napoleon. The battle for Europe . From the English by Helmut Ettinger. Munich: Bertelsmann, 2011
  • Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia . Allen Lane, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominic Lieven , at LSE
personal data
SURNAME Lieven, Dominic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lieven, Dominic Cristoph Bogdan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Eastern European historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1952