Wassili Wassiljewitsch Bervi

Wassili Berwi

Vassily Berwi-Flerovsky , also N. Flerovsky - pseudonym, real name William Wilhelmowitsch Berwi ( Russian Вильгельм Вильгельмович Берви * April 28 ^jul. / 10. May  1829 ^greg. In Ryazan , † 4. October 1918 in Yuzovka ) was a Russian economist and sociologist known under this pseudonym.

Berwi was the son of Wilhelm Berwi (1792-1859), professor of physiology at the University of Kazan , and great-grandson of the former British consul in Danzig Friedrich (Frederic?) Von Berwick.

He studied law at the Kazan University (1845–1849).

Berwi was a representative of popular utopian socialism. His book "Situation of the Working Class in Russia" (1869) placed Karl Marx on a par with Engels' work " The Situation of the Working Class in England " from 1845.

Works

• Polozenie rabocago klassa v Rossii. Nabljudenija i izsledovanija . Poljakov, S.-Peterburg 1869. (Situation of the working class in Russia) MDZ Reader
• The ABC of Social Sciences. The present West European civilization. Greco-Roman civilization, the Middle Ages, the rise of science . Hermann Haacke, Leipzig 1898. MDZ Reader
• Under three Russian emperors. The political system of Nicholas I, Alexander II and Alexander III. Experiences, studies and observations . Siegfried Cronbach, Berlin 1898.

literature

• Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 2 . Sovetskaya enziklopedija, Moscow 1962, col. 337–338. (Russian)
• Новая философская энциклопедия: БЕРВИ-ФЛЕРОВСКИЙ (Moscow, 2001, Russian, accessed April 10, 2012)
• Svetlana Gavrilćenko: On the person and fate of VV Bervi . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2012 . Argument, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86754-680-5 , pp. 105–111.

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