Iossif Michailowitsch Kulischer

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Iossif Michailowitsch Kulischer ( Russian Иосиф Михайлович Кулишер , German Josef Kulischer ; born August 1, 1878 in Kiev , Kyiv Governorate , Russian Empire , † 1934 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) was a Russian and Soviet economist .

Life

Iossif Kulischer was born as the son of the Jewish historian, ethnographer and lawyer Michail Ignatjewitsch Kulischer (1847-1919) in what is now the Ukrainian city of Kiev. He graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Saint Petersburg in 1900 and taught economic history there and at other educational institutions from 1908.

Kulischer wrote articles on the economic situation of the Jews in the Middle Ages and on Jews in Prussian silk weaving in the 18th century. He has also published studies on Russian and Western European economies in both Russian and German.

family

Iossif Kulischer was the older brother of the Russian-American sociologist Eugene M. Kulischer (1881-1956). Another, younger brother was the lawyer and sociologist Alexander Kulischer (1890–1942), who emigrated to Paris after 1917 and died in 1942 in the Drancy concentration camp .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Kulischer in the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia ; accessed on January 25, 2020 (Russian)
  2. entry to Kulisher, Iosif Mikhailovich in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979, at The Free Dictionary ; accessed on January 25, 2020