Nina Viktorovna Pigulevskaya

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Nina Viktorovna Pigulewskaja born Nina Viktorovna Stebnizkaja , ( Russian Нина Викторовна Пигулевская , maiden name Russian Нина Викторовна Стебницкая ; born January 1 . Jul / 13. January  1894 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 17th February 1970 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Soviet historian , orientalist , Byzantinist and university professor .

Life

Nina Wiktorowna came from a Polish aristocratic family whose ancestor had originally received the title of nobility in Hungary in 1482 . Her father was a lawyer . Her grandfather Ijeronim Ivanovich Stebnitski was a well-known geodesist . She attended the St. Petersburg girls' high school of Marija Stojunina (wife of the pedagogue and publicist Vladimir Jakowlewitsch Stojunin ) from 1904–1911 and then studied in the Bestuschewskije kursy for women with a degree in 1918. The subsequent traineeship at the University of Petrograd in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Pawel Konstantinowitsch Kokowzow graduated in 1922 with a doctorate as a candidate in history . From 1921 she worked in the Petrograd and Leningrad Public Library and edited a number of unique Syrian texts.

On December 11, 1928 Pigulewskaja was philosophical religious in connection with the prosecution of Woskressenije-circle ( Woskressenije affair ) arrested on July 22, 1929 to five years in a prison camp condemned them in the Solovetsky camp SLON on the Solovetsky Islands was serving . In 1931 she was released from the camp due to illness and exiled to Arkhangelsk .

In 1934 Pigulewskaya was able to return to Leningrad and became a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR). From 1937 Pigulewskaja worked in Leningrad in the Institute for Oriental Studies of the AN-SSSR. In addition, she taught from 1939 until the Leningrad Blockade and from 1944 to 1951 at the University of Leningrad . In 1946 she received her doctorate in history, was appointed professor and elected a corresponding member of the AN-SSSR.

Pigulewskaja's research interests were Syrian historical and literary monuments, the problems of feudalism and the social, economic and cultural developments in Syria , Arabia , Iran and the Byzantine Empire in the early Middle Ages . She was a member of the Société asiatique (since 1960) and Vice President of the Russian Palestine Society (since 1952).

Pigulewskaja was married to the chemist Georgi Wassiljewitsch Pigulewski (1888–1964), who became known for his studies of terpenoids .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Byzantium on the way to India. From the history of the Byzantine trade with the Orient from the 4th to 6th centuries. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Большая российская энциклопедия: ПИГУЛЕ́ВСКАЯ (урождённая Стебницкая) Нина Викторовна (accessed March 8, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c RAN: Пигулевская Нина Викторовна (accessed March 8, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f ПИГУЛЕВСКАЯ (урожд. Стебницкая) Нина Викторовна (1894–1970) . In: Я. В. Васильков, М. Ю. Сорокина (Ed.): Люди и судьбы. Биобиблиографический словарь востоковедов - жертв политического террора в советский период (1917–1991) . St. Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-85803-225-7 (Russian, pvost.org [accessed March 8, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Memorial : Жертвы политического террора в СССР. Пигин Александр Васильевич: Пидибаева Мария Захаровна (accessed March 8, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Pigulewskaya, Nina Viktorovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stebnitskaja, Nina Viktorovna (maiden name); Пигулевская, Нина Викторовна; Стебницкая, Нина Викторовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet orientalist, Byzantinist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1970
Place of death Leningrad