Sigurd Ottowitsch Schmidt

Sigurd O. Schmidt (2007)

Sigurd Ottowitsch Schmidt ( Russian Сигурд Оттович Шмидт ; born April 15, 1922 in Moscow ; † May 22, 2013 ibid) was a Russian historian and ethnographer .

Schmidt was the son of the polar researcher and politician Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt and his wife, the literary critic Margarita Emmanuilovna Golosovker (born April 19, 1889, † November 8, 1955). His mother worked at the Marx-Engels-Museum of the Moscow Marx-Engels-Institute (MEI or IME (abbreviation of the Russian name "Institut Marksa i Engel'sa")). After her release, she worked at the Moscow Revolutionary Museum (today's Museum of Modern History of Russia (ru: Musej sowremennoi istorii Rossii)) from April 23, 1931. He graduated from the History Faculty of Moscow University in 1944, taught at the historical archive there (today part of the Russian State University of Humanities) ( Российский государственный гуманитарный университет ) from 1949 and received his doctorate in 1965. 1970.

From 1968 to 2006 he was chairman of the Archaeographic Commission ( Археографическая комиссия ). In 1992 he was a co-founder of the Russian Academy of Education and from 1997 a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Carl-Erich Vollgraf; Richard Sperl; Rolf Hecker (Ed.): Stalinism and the end of the first Marx-Engels complete edition, 1931-1941: Documents about the political cleansing of the Marx-Engels Institute in 1931 and the implementation of the Stalinist line on the unified Marx-Engels-Lenin -Institute at the Central Committee of the CPSU from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History Moscow , Hamburg: Argument-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88619-688-3 , p. 61

Web links

• Sigurd Ottowitsch Schmidt in the Great Biographical Encyclopedia (Russian)