Valentin Lavrentievich Janin

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Valentin Lavrentjewitsch Janin ( Russian Валентин Лаврентьевич Янин ; born February 6, 1929 in Vyatka ; † February 2, 2020 in Moscow ) was a Soviet and Russian historian , numismatist , archaeologist and university professor .

Life

Janin's parents were the doctor Lavrenti Wassiljewitsch Janin and the teacher Jelisaveta Stepanovna nee Masslowa. Six months after Janin's birth the family moved to Orekhovo-Zuyevo , where the father as a health inspector, the former Morozov - factories worked. The family was endangered during the Stalin Purge in 1937. Janin's mother came from a kulak family that was largely related to the manufacturers of the Morosow family in Orechowo-Sujewo. The maternal great-grandfather, managing director of the factory owner Lossew, was arrested in 1937 and died after a year in DubrawLag . Janin's father got on the shooting lists, but was able to be transferred to a new job in Moscow in 1938 .

Janin was already enthusiastic about numismatics as a student . He graduated from school in Moscow in 1946 with a gold medal, so that he could study without an entrance examination. He became a student at the Faculty of History of Lomonosov University Moscow (MGU). He specialized at the Institute for Archeology at Artemi Vladimirovich Arzichowski . Since Arzichowski was not a numismatist, Janin wrote his diploma thesis on the coins of the Kievan Rus with Alexander Alexandrowitsch Sievers and Iwan Georgijewitsch Spasski , with whom he also worked out his candidate dissertation on the coin weight system of the Kievan Rus during the aspirantur from 1951-1954 . In 1954 he became a research assistant at the chair of archeology at MGU. In 1956 his first book on the coin weight system of the Russian Middle Ages was published. In addition to numismatics, he dealt with sphragistics and epigraphy of the Rus and examined the birch bark texts for the first time .

In 1962 Janin became the head of the Novgorod Archaeological Expedition of the MGU. In the same year his book on the governors of Novgorod was published. His doctoral dissertation , which he defended in 1963, built on this. In this work he analyzed the ruling system in the Novgorod Republic . In 1964 he became a professor at the chair of archeology at MGU.

In 1966 Janin was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)). In 1969 the Novgorod authorities decided to protect the Novgorod cultural layer . This decision was then adopted by 114 historically significant cities. Janin headed the Chair of Archeology at MGU from 1978 to 2015. In 1990 he became a real member of the AN-SSSR. In 2010 a documentary film about the archaeologist Valentin Janin was made with the support of the Ministry of Culture . In the course of the further excavation work of the Novgorod Archaeological Expedition of the MGU, the Novgorod Codex was found on July 13, 2000 . Janin's students included Pyotr Grigoryevich Gaidukov , Vladimir Igorewitsch Sawjalow , Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov and Alexander Stepanowitsch Khoroshev .

From 1996 to 2003 Janin was Chairman of the Council of the Russian Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences .

In 2013 Janin and other academy members ( Club July 1 ) signed a declaration against the Duma’s plans to amend the law to reform the RAN, which were then no longer implemented.

Valentin Janin died in Moscow on February 2, 2020.

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Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Valentin Lavrentevič Janin: The Archaeological Study of Novgorod: an historical Perspective. In: Mark A. Brisbane (Ed.): The Archeology of Novgorod, Russia. Recent Results from the Town and its Hinterland (= The Society for Medieval Archeology. Monograph Series. 13, ISSN  0583-9106 ). Society for Medieval Archeology, Lincoln 1992, pp. 67-106.
  • Valentin Lavrentevič Janin: Novgorod birch bark documents . In: Archives for Diplomatics, History of Writing, Seals and Heraldry . tape 41 , 1995, pp. 211-238 , doi : 10.7788 / afd.1995.41.jg.211 .
  • Janin, Valentin Lavrentévic: A medieval center in the north of Rus' . In: Novgorod. The medieval center and its surroundings in northern Russia . 2001, p. 75-98 .
  • Janin, Valentin Lavrentévic: Messages on unusual paper . In: Novgorod. The medieval center and its surroundings in northern Russia . 2001, p. 109-120 .
  • Janin, Valentin Lavrentévic: Praise the Lord . In: Novgorod. The medieval center and its surroundings in northern Russia . 2001, p. 121-124 .
  • Janin, Valentin Lavrentévic: Prince or Boyars: Who was in power in the Novgorod state? In: Novgorod. The medieval center and its surroundings in northern Russia . 2001, p. 125-132 .
  • Janin, Valentin Lavrentévic: Signs of Power . In: Novgorod. The medieval center and its surroundings in northern Russia . 2001, p. 133-142 .
  • Janin, Valentin Lavrentévic: Foundations of the economy. Money and monetary systems in medieval Novgorod . In: Novgorod. The medieval center and its surroundings in northern Russia . 2001, p. 143-148 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b MGU: Янин Валентин Лаврентьевич (accessed September 15, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g RAN: Янин Валентин Лаврентьевич (accessed September 15, 2018).
  3. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: Я́НИН Валентин Лаврентьевич (accessed September 15, 2018).
  4. ↑ Заявляем об отказе вступить в новую «РАН» (accessed on September 15, 2018).
  5. ↑ Премия "Триумф". Справка (accessed May 17, 2018).
  6. ↑ 13-Я ЦЕРЕМОНИЯ ВРУЧЕНИЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРНОЙ ПРЕМИИ АЛЕКСАНДРА СОЛЖЕНИЦЫНА (accessed September 15, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Janin, Valentin Lavrentievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Янин, Валентин Лаврентьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian historian, numismatist, archaeologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyatka
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2020
Place of death Moscow