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02/03/2023

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.

01/03/2023

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.
From 1746, as a privat-docent, he lectured to students at Marburg University.
From 1748 he was at the University of Gottingen, first as a professor of philosophy, then law, and then taught at organized by him chair of history and statistics. Among his famous pupils was Johann-Georg Meisel.
In 1751 and 1759 he traveled through Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and England on royal allowance of George III for the purpose of exchange of experience.
He was one of the founders and members of the Masonic Lodge "To Three Lions" in Marburg, founded in 1743.
He became a follower of Hermann Conring (1606-1681), who was the first to lecture on state studies at the University of Helmstedt (from 1660). Conring sought to teach politicians to understand the causes of state phenomena, divided into four groups: material - description of the territory and population of the state, formal - political organization, final (goal) - welfare of the state and its citizens, administrative - management of the state, its apparatus (officials, army, etc.). These four parts predetermined the development of demography, political geography, budget statistics and administrative statistics.
Akhenwal widely disseminated Conring's ideas, creating the school of descriptive statistics, which prevailed in Europe until the mid-19th century. He replaced the term "state studies" (German: Staatskunde, Staatswissenschaft) suggested by Conring with a monophonic term, deriving it from the Italian statista (statesman) and understanding by this expression "that part of practical politics which consists in familiarity with the whole modern state structure of our states".
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron described the scientific contribution made by this scholar as follows: "A. was the first to give statistics a definite form in his: 'Abriss der neuesten Siaa t swissenschaft der vornehmsten europ. Reiche und Republicken" (Goetting., 1749; in 1752 under the title: "Staats Verfassungen der europ. Reiche"). A. is considered the founder of statistics as a science, because he not only gave a precise definition of all its constituent parts and indicated its true tasks and aims, but was also the first to introduce the word "statistics" into use.
His outstanding pupil and at the same time his successor in the chair was August Ludwig Schlotzer.
He died in Gottingen on May 1, 1772, leaving five children by three marriages.

01/03/2023

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 Moscow University for three years to prepare for a professorship in the Department of General History. Since 1904, at Moscow University he led a seminary on general history. In April 1907, after passing the master's examinations, he was admitted to the rank of privat-docent; in 1908-1909 he had an internship in Germany. In March 1911 he left the university with a group of professors in protest against Kasso's policy, and until 1917 read general history at A. L. Shanyavsky University.
He also taught at the Higher women courses, and from 1909 - at the Moscow Commercial Institute, first as a lecturer, from January 1913 - associate professor, from 1915 - extraordinaire and from June 1916 - full professor in the Department of History. In August 1917 he was appointed supernumerary full professor at Moscow University in the Department of General History. During this period he wrote his main work, the study "Slavic-German relations in the Middle Ages. Colonization of Mecklenburg in XIII century" (1915). The first volume of this work ("Material and Method") he defended at the university as a thesis and received the degree of Master of General History (1915), for the second volume ("The Colonization Process") he was approved for the degree of Doctor of General History (1916).
From 1919 he worked in the library of the Rumyantsev Museum as head of the department of general history. In February 1921 he was appointed one of three members of the main administration of the Rumyantsev Museum and soon became deputy director, remaining in charge of the general history department. When the V.I. Lenin Library became director. Lenin Library became V. I. Nevsky, Egorov was confirmed as a deputy director and a member of the board of directors of the library. In 1921-1925 he was full member of the Historical Institute at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
In the second half of 1920s he worked in various Soviet historical commissions in Moscow, many of them headed. On January 14, 1928 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. In the summer of 1928 he made a trip to Europe to study the organization of libraries in its countries. During the same period he made reports at the Russian Historical Week in Berlin.
In 1930 he was arrested on the fabricated by the OGPU political case, spent a year in prison, then was exiled to Tashkent, where he started working in the republican library, but passed away on November 24, 1931. He was rehabilitated in 1966-1967.

28/02/2023

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.

28/02/2023

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27/02/2023

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.
Thucydides' biography is not exactly known. The reports of his biographers, of whom the main one is a certain Markellinus (who lived in the 6th century, a thousand years later) are not reliable. The most reliable accounts are those of the historian himself, made in passing.
Thucydides belonged to a rich and noble family: his ancestor was the Thracian king Olor, and he was related to the family of the Athenian statesman and commander Miltiades (the winner of the Battle of Marathon), the old aristocratic family of Philae. As the son of Oloras, of the Attic demesne of Galimuntes, Thucydides had great material resources - he owned gold mines in Thrace and was influential there. In Athens he seems to have stood close to influential persons, including probably Pericles, whose remarkable characterization he presented.
Thucydides, as his work proves, received an excellent education. Reaching a mature age, he took part in state and military affairs. The historian spent the first years of the Peloponnesian War in Athens; during an epidemic of plague, which broke out in the second year of the war, he himself fell ill with this terrible disease, which he then described. When the Spartan general Brasidas led the war effort into Thrace (424), Thucydides had a squadron in command on the island of Thassos; he was unable to prevent Amphipolis from advancing to Brasidas (having only taken measures to protect Aion). Forced, therefore, to go into exile, he settled in his Thracian estate, where at his leisure he could compose and process his work, quietly, as an onlooker, observe the two warring parties and, in particular, become closer to the Peloponnesians. He visited, apparently, many places which had been the theater of war, the court of the Macedonian king Archelaus, Sicily, and in particular Syracuse, as may be inferred from his lively and accurate description of their surroundings and siege. Thucydides spent 20 years in exile. At the end of the Peloponnesian War (404), owing to an amnesty (general or, according to some sources, special, proposed by Enobius), he was able to return home, but soon died (c. 399-396; in any case not later than 396, for he does not know the restoration of the Long Walls by Conon and the eruption of Etna in 396), some say in Athens, others in a foreign country, in Thrace, or on his way back home. There is an account[source not cited 568 days] that he died a violent death.

26/02/2023

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.
Except for a few excerpts (in the collections of Muller, Jacobi, Bergk, and Nauck), all his works have disappeared for us. Muller's surviving texts of Ion occupy eight pages of printed text. Only two fragments have been translated into Russian (given in a popular scientific book by the famous historian Kravchuk on the age of Pericles). Both are in the form of a description of a feast attended by an eminent person, with the narrator himself present. The same literary device was later willingly used by Xenophonte and Plato.
The first surviving fragment depicts the famous playwright Sophocles arriving as an Athenian strategist on the island of Chios. Here the permanent representative of Athens, Hermesilaus, a close friend of Sophocles, immediately gave a feast in his honor.
The second fragment refers to the time of Jonah's youth, when he came to Athens on some business and was invited to a feast at the house of Laomedontes, a man of great dignity apparently, for Kimon himself, the famous Athenian commander and son of Miltiades, also appeared at his feast. It is Kimon who is the protagonist of the second story.

25/02/2023

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; by this time a large part of the "History" had already been written, for it is known that Herodotus read extracts from it to the Athenians. In 444 B.C. Herodotus took part in founding the all-Hellenic colony of Furia in Greater Greece on the site of Sybaris, destroyed by the Crotonians. He died in 425 BC.

25/02/2023

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.

24/02/2023

Sergei Mikhailovich Abalin (1901 - August 9, 1956, Moscow) was a Soviet historian and party figure.
Born in the village of Gostilovo, Bronnitsky uyezd, Moscow province. Served in the Red Army. In 1924 he joined the Communist Party. From 1925 he worked in the Khamovniki district committee of the RCP(b), then in research institutions.
From 1931 to 1934. - From 1931 to 1934 he was the director of the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute.
From 1934 to 1937 he studied at the Institute of Red Professors, then worked at the Institute of Marx - Engels - Lenin in the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Participant of the Great Patriotic War: at the beginning of the war he volunteered to the militia, served in the 21st division of militia of the Kiev district of Moscow. Head of the political department of the said division. Later - deputy and chief of political department of the 173rd Infantry Division. Participated in the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad. Was demobilized in 1944, worked in the editorial offices of Party Construction magazine and Pravda newspaper.
July 13, 1949 - editor in chief of Bolshevik magazine. Since 1955 he was editor-in-chief of Party Life magazine.
In February 1956, he became a member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU.

24/02/2023

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