Pavel Polian
Pavel Markovič Polian ( Russian Павел Маркович Нерлер , also Pavel Poljan, born August 31, 1952 in Moscow ) is a Russian cultural geographer and historian .
Life
After attending a foreign language school, Polian studied geography, received his doctorate in 1980 and worked until 1991 as a research assistant at the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1991 he accepted a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Cultural Geography in Freiburg im Breisgau , and after the fellowship ended in 1993 he worked as a freelance scientist. He has received teaching assignments and grants at the universities of Hanover , Paris , Princeton , Cologne , Yale and Freiburg.
In 1998 , Polian completed his habilitation in geography in Moscow, and in 2008 he was appointed professor of this subject at the North Caucasian University of Stavropol . In 2015 he became director of the Mandelstam Center at the School of Economics and Chairman of the Mandelstam Society in Moscow. Pavel publishes in the three scientific disciplines - geography, philology and above all history. He has made numerous scientific contributions to the history of the Second World War , the Holocaust , population and migration geography and, under the stage name Pavel Nerler, to Russian poetry of the 20th century.
Polian has lived with his family since 1991 mainly in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Fonts (selection)
- The population of Russia. New trends and changes . Edited by Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies. Cologne 1993.
- Deported home. Soviet prisoners of war in the "Third Reich" and their repatriation . Oldenbourg. Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-486-56535-5 .
- Pavel Nerler (pseudonym): Ossip Mandelstam's last years. Ostracism, exile and death of a poet 1932–38 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78530-5
- Letters from Hell. The records of the Auschwitz Jewish Sonderkommando. wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3907-2 .
literature
- Hans-Heinrich Nolte : Foreword to Pavel Polian: Letters from Hell. The records of the Auschwitz Jewish Sonderkommando. wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2019, pp. 9–14 (with curriculum vitae and Polian's list of publications).
Web links
- Literature by and about Pavel Polian in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author information on Pavel Polian at the wbg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polian, Pavel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Polian, Pavel Markovič (full name); Нерлер, Павел Маркович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cultural geographer and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |