Rostovtsev, Mikhail Ivanovich, 1870-1952
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- Summary
- Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev, was a Russian historian whose career straddled the 19th and 20th centuries and who produced important works on ancient Roman and Greek history. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1935. He was also a member of the Russian Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [2][3][4][5][6][7][1]
- Born
- 1870 [3]
- 1870-11-10 [1]
- Birth Place
- Zhytomyr [1]
- Kyiv [1]
- Zitomir, Ukraine [4]
- Died
- 1952 [3]
- 1952-10-20 [1]
- Death Place
- New Haven [1]
- New Haven, Conn. [4]
- Country
- Ukraine [3]
- United States [3]
- Language
- English [4][6]
- Russian [6]
- Occupation
- economic historian [1]
- classical archaeologist [1]
- historian of classical antiquity [1]
- university teacher [1]
- social historian [1]
- economist [1]
- latinist [1]
- archaeologist [1]
- historian [1]
- opinion journalist [1]
- art historian [1]
- Vēsturnieks [6]
- Profession
- Historiker [3]
- Employer
- Imperial St. Petersburg University [1]
- University of Wisconsin–Madison [1]
- Yale University [1]
- University of Oxford [1]
- Field of Activity
- Vēsture [6]
- Educated at
- Первая киевская гимназия [1]
- Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University [1]
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv [1]
- Country of Education
- Russian Empire [1]
- Archives at
- Manuscripts and Archives Department Yale University Library [1]
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library [1]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [1]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [1]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [1]
- American National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [1]
- Sources
- 1. Wikidata
- 2. VIAF
- 3. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 4. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 5. Library of Congress
- 6. National Library of Latvia
- 7. National Library of Korea
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