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Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch (German: Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch; February 5 (17), 1848, Norka, Kamyshin district, Sar...
05/09/2022

Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch (German: Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch; February 5 (17), 1848, Norka, Kamyshin district, Saratov Province, Russian Empire - July 18, 1925, Gottingen, Germany) was a Protestant theologian, teacher, and church historian.
Nathaniel Bonwetsch was born into the family of the priest Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch (German: Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch; 1804-1876). He studied at Derpt Gymnasium and then graduated from the University of Derpt. From 1882 to 1891 he was a professor at the University of Dorpat; from 1891 he took up a chair at Gottingen University.
Bonwetsch wrote a number of works on theology and history of Christianity, and since 1897 was also co-publisher of Studien zur Gesch. d. Theologie u. d. Kirche."
He died in Gottingen on July 18, 1925.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek ?????????? ?????????????, about 484 BC - about 425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian,...
04/09/2022

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek ?????????? ?????????????, about 484 BC - about 425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, in the winged expression of Cicero "the father of history" - author of the first surviving significant treatise, History, describing the Greco-Persian wars and the customs of many of his contemporary peoples. The works of Herodotus were of great importance to ancient culture; they are also an extremely important source on the history of the Great Scythia, including dozens of ancient peoples in what is now Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
The extant biography of Herodotus is based on two sources: Herodotus' own texts and the later Byzantine encyclopedia of the Suda. Some of the data in the sources contradict each other, but in general Herodotus' life is summarized as follows.
Herodotus' hometown, Halicarnassus, was founded by the Dorians, near a town of members of the local tribe of the Carians. Herodotus was born here in the influential Lixa family. According to the writer Pamphylia by Aulus Gellius, a Roman writer of the II century, he was born in 484 BC. When Herodotus was young he belonged to the party fighting against the tyrant Ligdades, was exiled, lived in Samos, and then he went on long travels. He toured Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Asia Minor, the Hellespont, the Northern Black Sea coast, the Balkan Peninsula from Peloponnese to Macedonia and Thrace. About 446 B.C. he settled in Athens, where he became intimate with Pericles' circle.

Ion of Chios (Greek ???) was a 5th century BC Greek poet and historian (died 422 BC).As a young man he visited Athens, w...
04/09/2022

Ion of Chios (Greek ???) was a 5th century BC Greek poet and historian (died 422 BC).
As a young man he visited Athens, where he became acquainted with Kimon and Aeschylus. Later, during the Samos war, in his homeland he met Sophocles. He died shortly before the staging of Aristophanes' Peace (421 BC).
A man of rare versatility at that time, Ion composed tragedies, elegies, hymns, dithyrambs, and wrote in prose travel notes ????????? and a historical account of the foundation of Chios.

Thucydides (Greek ??????????, c. 460 - c. 400 B.C.) was the greatest ancient Greek historian, founder of historical scie...
03/09/2022

Thucydides (Greek ??????????, c. 460 - c. 400 B.C.) was the greatest ancient Greek historian, founder of historical science, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides' year of birth is not exactly known. Based on the writer Pamphila's testimony to the second-century Roman writer Aulus Gellius,[2] he was born about 470 B.C.; from the words of his biographer Marcellinus, however, we must conclude that he was born about 450 B.C. The historian says, that at the beginning of Peloponnesian war (431 B.C.) he was mature enough and could understand and observe the events [3]; besides it is known, that Thucydides already showed some strategic skills in 424 B.C. and was not less then 30 years old. He was most probably born about 460-455 B.C. Thus his youth coincided with the age of Pericles: he was a contemporary of Euripides, the Sophists, and Socrates.

Nikolay Nikolaevich Bantysh-Kamelsky (16 [27] December 1737, Nizhyn, Russian Empire - January 20 [February 1] 1814, Mosc...
02/09/2022

Nikolay Nikolaevich Bantysh-Kamelsky (16 [27] December 1737, Nizhyn, Russian Empire - January 20 [February 1] 1814, Moscow, Russian Empire) - Russian historian, archaeographer and publisher, since 1800 the manager of the Moscow Main Archive. He had prepared for print and published many ancient Russian monuments and international treaties. Father of historian D. N. Bantysh-Kamensky.

Dmitriy Nikolaevich Yegorov (14 (26) October 1878, Yelets - November 24, 1931, Tashkent) - Russian and Soviet historian,...
01/09/2022

Dmitriy Nikolaevich Yegorov (14 (26) October 1878, Yelets - November 24, 1931, Tashkent) - Russian and Soviet historian, professor of Moscow State University, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
He was born on October 14 (26), 1878 in Yelets, Orel Province. Early lost his father, who worked as a teacher of geography and natural history in Elets female gymnasium. Vasilevsky received his secondary education in the gymnasium department of Petropavlovsk College, from which he graduated in 1895. He entered the Historical and Philological Faculty of Moscow University; was a student of P.G. Vinogradov. In 1899 he was expelled from Moscow University for participation in student unrests and sent to Kaluga, then by the request of professor P.G. Vinogradov he was reinstated in the University. He graduated from the course in 1901 with a 1st degree diploma, and was left at

Gottfried Achenwall (German: Gottfried Achenwall; 1719-1772) was a German philosopher, statistician, economist, teacher,...
31/08/2022

Gottfried Achenwall (German: Gottfried Achenwall; 1719-1772) was a German philosopher, statistician, economist, teacher, historian, lawyer, and one of the founders of statistics.
Gottfried Achenwall was born on October 20, 1719, in Elblong to a businessman's family.
Between 1738 and 1743 he studied at the University of Jena, the University of Halle, and the University of Leipzig.

Alisa Vladimirovna Bank (17 (30) September 1906, St. Petersburg - August 22, 1984, Leningrad) - Soviet Byzantine histori...
31/08/2022

Alisa Vladimirovna Bank (17 (30) September 1906, St. Petersburg - August 22, 1984, Leningrad) - Soviet Byzantine historian, orientalist, doctor of historical sciences (1974), employee of the State Hermitage Museum.
Born in St. Petersburg into the family of the librarian V.E. Bank, she was the younger sister of the librarian B.V. Bank. In 1928 she entered the Leningrad State University, faculty of linguistics and material culture. She studied under V.N.Beneshevich, O.A.Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya, A.P.Smirnov. During her postgraduate studies she attended the seminar of I.M.Grevs, who mentioned her in his letter to N.P.Ancyferov: "At the university I work with four postgraduate students in the form of a special seminar on African agrarian inscriptions of Roman times. Among them is Alice Bank..... I work with them with great pleasure." In 1931 she got a job at the State Hermitage, where she worked for more than 50 years. From 1940 she headed the Department of Byzantine and Near Eastern Art, headed the Hermitage post-graduate course, was a member of the Academic and Editorial Boards, organized the Hermitage permanent exhibition and a number of exhibitions on the art and culture of Byzantium. In 1932 - the 1st permanent exhibition, in 1956 - "The Culture and Art of Byzantium and the Near East" in the Hermitage, in 1975 - exhibitions in Leningrad and Moscow.
During the war and the blockade of Leningrad, part of the Hermitage collections and a number of staff were evacuated to Sverdlovsk in 1943-1944. A.V. Bank was the Chief Curator of the evacuated Hermitage Oriental Collections. During the war she taught a course on the history of Byzantine art at the Sverdlovsk State University.

Perry Anderson (born 1938, London, England) is a British-American historian, sociologist and political scientist, one of...
30/08/2022

Perry Anderson (born 1938, London, England) is a British-American historian, sociologist and political scientist, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the day and the chief theorist of the New Left. He was editor-in-chief of the significant Marxist publication New Left Review in 1962-1982 and 2000-2003, and remains a member of its editorial board.
From a family of Anglo-Irish descent. Brother of the historian Benedict Anderson. Spent part of his childhood in China, where his father worked in customs. During World War II, the family left for the United States, then moved to the south of Ireland. A graduate of Worcester College, Oxford University, where he showed a wide range of interests from philosophy to the study of Russian and French. He is now a professor of history and sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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