Alexander Soloviev (historian)
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Alexander Vasilyevich Soloviev | |
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| Born | Александр Васильевич Соловьёв September 6, 1890 Sarajevo Law School University of Geneva |
Alexander Vasilievich Soloviev (
Sarajevo Law School (1947-1949), before Communist repression forced him to emigrate to Switzerland, where he worked as professor of Slavic studies at the University of Geneva
(1951-1961).
Biography
Alexander Vasilievich Soloviev was born in 1890 in
Imperial Warsaw University, where he graduated in law in 1912 and historico-philological studies in 1915. In 1918 he became a lecturer in Slavic law in the University of Rostov on Don, constituted during World War I
on the basis of the Imperial Warsaw University after the latter was evacuated due to the German occupation of Russian territories.
After the defeat of the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, where king Alexander, who had grown up in Imperial Russia, was welcoming to the Russian emigration. From 1920 to 1946 he was a professor at the University of Belgrade, where he received his doctorate in 1928 for his thesis on the 14th-century king and legislator Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia. At the same time, he taught Russian and Russian literature at the First Russo-Serbian Gymnasium in the Serbian capital.[1]
In Belgrade he also married Natalya Rayevskaya, a fellow White Russian émigré in the Yugoslav kingdom.
After the Second World War he was named dean of the newly created
Byzantine history at the University of Geneva (1951–1961).[1]
He died on 15 January 1971 in Geneva.
For a short time, he also lectured at the University of Lwow, where he published his research on Dušan's Code in Polish.
His son Alexander worked at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Notes
- ^ a b "Соловьев, Александр Васильевич" [Solovyov, Alexander Vasilievich]. vremennik.biz (in Russian).
Selected bibliography
- Selected Monuments of Serbian Law from the 12th to 15th centuries (1926)
- Legislation of Stefan Dušan, emperor of Serbs and Greeks (1928)
- Dušan's Code in - 1349 and 1354 (1929)
- Greek Charters of Serbian Rulers (1936)
- Lectures from the History of Serbian Law (1939)
- History of Serbian Coat of Arms (1958)
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