Wassili Wassiljewitsch Struwe

Vasily Vasilievich Struve , even Struve, Russian Василий Васильевич Струве , English transliteration Vasily Vasilievich Struve, (born January 21 ^{. Jul} / 2. February  1889 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 15. September 1965 in Leningrad) was a Russian classical philologist , Ancient orientalist , ancient historian , mathematician and Egyptologist .

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Struwe (a member of the famous German-Baltic family of scientists Struve) studied classical philology at the University of Saint Petersburg and Egyptology with Boris Alexandrowitsch Turajew . He graduated in 1911 and then continued his academic work at the university. In 1913 he studied with Adolf Erman in Germany . In 1916 he became a private lecturer at the Petrograd University and from 1920 professor. In 1928 he received his doctorate ( candidate of science ) on Manetho . He also received the honorary Soviet title Doctor of Science . From 1918 to 1933 he was head of the Egyptian department of the Hermitage . His colleague and successor was Miliza Edwinowna Matje . As a university lecturer, he also began studying Akkadian , Hebrew and other Semitic languages with the orientalist and academician Pawel Kokowzow as well as Sumerian on his own. In 1935 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . From 1937 to 1940 he was at the head of the ethnographic department of the academy and from 1941 to 1950 he was head of the institute for oriental studies at the academy and from 1959 head of the department of Ancient Orient at this institute. The Académie internationale d'Histoire des Sciences in Paris, he was a member of a corresponding member since 1935th

He was with Turajew the editor of the translation of the Moscow mathematical papyrus ("Mathematical papyrus of the State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow", sources and studies on the history of mathematics, astronomy and physics, A, vol. 1, 1930). He also translated numerous demotic documents from the museums of the Soviet Union. But he also dealt with the cultural history of the ancient Orient in general and published a book on the ancient history of the Black Sea region.

Struwe was the head of a Russian school of ancient orientalists and Egyptologists. One of his students was Otto Neugebauer .

Fonts

• Editor: History of the Old World. Chrestomathie , 3 volumes, Berlin, Volk und Wissen, 1954, 1957, 1959 (Vol. 1 Der Alte Orient, Vol. 2 Greece and Hellenism, Vol. 3 Rome), translation from Russian

literature

• IM Diakonov, Adolf Pawlowitsch Juschkewitsch : Vasily Vasilievich Struve . In: Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 19, 1969, ISSN  0003-9810 , p. 141.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Academy's directory of members.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wassili Wassiljewitsch Struwe in the catalog of the German National Library