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Vasily Struve

1889 - 1965

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Vasily Vasilievich Struve (Russian: Василий Васильевич Струве; February 2 [O.S. January 21] 1889 in Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 15, 1965 in Leningrad) was a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family, the founder of the Soviet scientific school of researchers on Ancient Near East history. In 1907 he entered the Department of History at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Petersburg University, where he studied the Ancient Greek and Latin languages, and Ancient Egyptian language under the leadership of the famous Russian Egyptologist Boris Turaev. He became proficient in all types of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, including Demotic. He graduated from the Petersburg University in 1911 and continued research work and lecturing at the university until 1913, when he left for Germany for profound studies of the Egyptian language under Adolf Erman. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Struve is the 532nd most popular historian (down from 511th in 2019), the 2,498th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,293rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Vasily Struve ranks 532 out of 561. Before him are Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa, Francis Parkman, Romila Thapar, Charles Oman, Richard Bauckham, and Warren Treadgold. After him are Andrei Lankov, Edward Augustus Freeman, Anthony Grafton, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Iain Pears, and Bernard Bailyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Vasily Struve ranks 290. Before him are George Hutson, Annie Speirs, William Keighley, Moroni Olsen, Edward Sedgwick, and Johan Sigfrid Sirén. After him are Robert Benchley, Marjorie Rambeau, George S. Kaufman, Elsie Janis, Vilhelm Wolfhagen, and George Walsh. Among people deceased in 1965, Vasily Struve ranks 228. Before him are Robert Sjursen, Felix Frankfurter, Herbert Morrison, Steve Cochran, Helen Wainwright, and Lorraine Hansberry. After him are Bessie Barriscale, Vajiha Samadova, Henry Weed Fowler, Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh, Miller Anderson, and Geeta Bali.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Struve ranks 2,498 out of 3,761. Before him are Isa Munayev (1965), Yuri Gavrilov (1953), Serhiy Novikov (1949), Sasha Luss (1992), Nikolai Tishchenko (1926), and Adam Saitiev (1977). After him are Andrei Lankov (1963), Ksenia Sobchak (1981), Ruslan Gelayev (1964), Svetlana Khodchenkova (1983), Sergei Puskepalis (1966), and Valentina Nikonova (1952).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Vasily Struve ranks 21. Before him are Boris Chicherin (1828), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Aron Gurevich (1924), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), Irina Antonova (1922), and Timofey Granovsky (1813). After him are Andrei Lankov (1963).

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