Michael Rostovtzeff

Details

Instance of

human

Born

29 October 1870, 10 November 1870, 1870

Died

20 October 1952, October 1952, 1952

Place of birth

Zhytomyr, Kyiv

Place of death

New Haven

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Mikhail

Family name

Rostovtsev

Father

Ivan Yakovlevich Rostovtzveff

Mother

Maria Monachova Rostovtzeva

Spouse

Sophie M. Kulezycki

Field of work

history, classical philology, archaeology

Occupation

economic historian, classical archaeologist, historian of classical antiquity, university teacher, social historian, economist, latinist, archaeologist, historian, opinion journalist, art historian, classical philologist

Position held

professor

Citizenship

Russian Empire, United States

Awards

Sterling Professor, honorary doctor of the University of Athens, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctor of the Leipzig University, Officer of the Legion of Honour

archives at

Manuscripts and Archives Department Yale University Library, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

contributed to creative work

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Writers of St. Petersburg. XX century

different from

Mikhail Rostovtsev

doctoral advisor

Nikodim Kondakov

doctoral student

Vasily Vasilievich Struve, Mariya Sergeyenko

educated at

Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University, Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University, Kiev Gymnasium

employer

Imperial St. Petersburg University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yale University, University of Oxford, Bestuzhev Courses

interested in

history

languages spoken, written or signed

English, Russian, German, French

member of

Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Imperial Russian Archaeological Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities

member of political party

Constitutional Democratic Party

name in native language

Михаил Иванович Ростовцев

place of burial

New Haven, Grove Street Cemetery

student

Anatoli Guenko, Mariya Sergeyenko, Henry Rudolph Immerwahr, Tatiana Warsher

student of

Nikodim Kondakov

topic's main category

Category:Michael Rostovtzeff

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