Ivan Vasilyevich Arsenyev

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Archpriest Ivan (Johann) Wassiljewitsch Arsenjew

Ivan Wassilijewitsch Arsenjew (also Johann von Arseniew; Russian : Иоанн Васильевич Арсеньев; * March 7, 1862 in Moscow ; † September 8, 1930 ibid) was a Russian Orthodox monk and archpriest . He came from the aristocratic Baltic-Russian family Arsenjew (von Arseniev) and was a theological writer and church historian.

Life

In 1868 the family moved to the Samoskvorechye district of Moscow , where the young Arsenyev spent his childhood. In 1873 they moved to St. Petersburg , where Ivan A. attended the 3rd St. Petersburg grammar school. As a result of a serious illness, he and his mother had been outside Russia since the spring of 1878. Upon her return Arsenyev visited in May 1879, the Moscow Theological Seminary and graduated in the summer of his final examination with distinction. From 1885 to 1889 he studied at the Moscow Spiritual Academy . After graduating, he taught at the Bethany Seminary and lectured on moral theology at the Moscow School of the Order of Saint Catherine. From 1892 he worked as an author and teacher at the Moscow Teacher Training Institute and at the German School in St. Peter's Church in St. Petersburg. In 1898 he obtained the Magister Theologiae , his master's thesis was entitled “ Ultramontanic Movement in the Present Century up to and including the Vatican Council ” (Kharkov, 1895). In 1914 he received his doctorate in church history , his dissertation was “From Charlemagne to the Reformation ” (Moscow, 1909, 1910).

On January 15, 1918, he was appointed head of the monastery in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, and in 1922 he was ordained archpriest. Between 1922 and 1930 he was imprisoned several times and sentenced to prison terms. He had been deputized to a concentration camp and in the spring of 1930 was sentenced to three years in Siberian exile. He owed the Russian human rights activist Jekaterina Pawlowna Peschkowa his pardon so that he could continue his scientific work. He may have died as a result of the imprisonment on September 8, 1930 and was buried in the Danilov Cemetery near Moscow.

Works (excerpt)

  • "The word on the day of the holy coronation of their imperial majesties that the maintenance of Orthodoxy is the most important and essential condition for the well-being of Russia" (M., 1889); [4]
  • “Sadducees. The origin of this Judean party and its religious and political views. "(M., 1911) djvu [5]

Origin and family

Coat of arms of the aristocratic family Arsenjew (von Arseniev) in Courland

Ivan v. A. came from the aristocratic Baltic-Russian family of Arseniev. His father was the Real Secret Councilor Vasily Sergejewitsch Arsenjew (1829-1915), who had been married to Natalja Jurjewna Dolgorukowa (1830-1902) from the house of Prince Yuri Dolgurokov since 1852 . Princess Natalia was a woman who was strongly influenced by religion. She corresponded with the abbess of the Strastnoy monastery in Moscow and worshiped the metropolitan Philaret Drozdov . His nephew was the Russian Orthodox theologian Nikolaus von Arseniev ( 1888-1977 ).

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, Görlitz o. J. Digitalisat

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ультрамонтанское движение в XIX столетии до Ватиканского собора (1869-70) включительно [1]
  2. ↑ Секты Европы от Карла Великого до Реформации [2]
  3. ↑ Tombstone of Ivan Arsenjew [3]
personal data
SURNAME Arsenyev, Ivan Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arseniew, Iwan von (full German name); Арсеньев, Иоанн Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Orthodox archpriest and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1930
Place of death Moscow