Vasily Ossipowitsch Klyuchevsky
Vasily Klyuchevsky ( Russian Василий Осипович Ключевский , scientific. Transliteration Vasilij Osipovic Ključevskij * 16 . Jul / 28. January 1841 greg. In Wosnessenskoje ( Penza province ); † 12 jul. / 25. May 1911 greg. In Moscow) was an eminent Russian historian.
His main work is the five-volume course russkoj istorii (“Course Russian History”, first printed 1904–1922, published in German as “Russian History: From Peter the Great to Nicholas I”. Zurich: Artemis-Verlag, 1945).
Klyuchevsky was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- Сказания иностранцев о Московском. т-ва Рябушинских, Москва 1916, ( digitized from the holdings of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research ).
- Russian history. From Peter the Great to Nicholas I (= Artemis Library. Russian Series. Dept. 1: Intellectual History. Vol. 1–2, ZDB -ID 1155661-4 ). (Translated from Russian and edited by Waldemar Jollos). 2 volumes. Artemis-Verlag, Zurich 1945.
literature
- Robert F. Byrnes: VO Kliuchevskii. Historian of Russia. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN et al. 1995, ISBN 0-253-32940-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klyuchevsky, Vasily Osipovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ključevskij, Vasilij Osipovič; Ключевский, Василий Осипович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voznesenskoye (Penza Governorate ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1911 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |