Fyodor Ivanovich Uspensky

Fyodor Uspensky ( Russian Фёдор Иванович Успенский * February 7, even Fedor I. Uspensky quoted ^jul. / 19th February  1845 ^greg. In Galich ; † 10. September 1928 in Leningrad ) was a leading Russian Byzantinist .

Fyodor Uspensky

Life

Uspensky studied at the University of Saint Petersburg , where he received his doctorate on Niketas Choniates in 1872 . In 1879 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate) on the establishment of the second Bulgarian empire . At first he was mainly concerned with the relations between Byzantium and Bulgaria, including the economic relations between Byzantium and Russia. But he also devoted himself intensively to the Crusades . From 1874 he taught at the New Russian University in Odessa (the Russian university closest to Istanbul), but traveled frequently and in 1894 went all the way to Istanbul , where he founded the Russian Archaeological Institute (Русский археологический институт в Константинополелелелеполе of the former Studion monastery ) and campaigned for the preservation of Byzantine monuments and libraries in Turkey. He carried out excavations in Istanbul, Asia Minor, Macedonia and Bulgaria. In 1900 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences . During the First World War he had to leave Turkey and published the magazine Wisantiski Wremenik in Saint Petersburg . From 1922 to 1927 he taught at the University of Saint Petersburg and prepared the publication of his Magnum Opus , a three-volume history of Byzantium, which was published posthumously, as well as his History of the Empire of Trebizond . Together with Wassili Wassilewski (1838–1898), he is considered to be the founder of Russian Byzantine Studies. As early as 1886, that is, more than sixty years before the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines was founded , he created an international Byzantine society and published a philological journal for suggested Byzantine Studies. He was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Schreiner: Byzanz 565-1453 , Oldenbourg, 2008, p. 126
2. ↑ Marie Nystazopoulou-Pélékidou: L'Histoire des Congrès internationaux of Études Byzantines. Première partie , in: Byzantina Symmeikta 18 (2008) 11-34, there p. 19 [1] (PDF)