Ilya Gershevitch
Ilya Gershevitch (1914 in
Iranologist
.
Gershevitch was born to Russian parents fleeing from Germany to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I. He enrolled in the University of Rome in 1933, and moved to England in 1938. In 1948, he became the first holder of a new Lectureship in Iranian Studies at
Cambridge University
.
He became a Fellow of the University of Berne
.
His work includes pioneering studies of the
Achaemenid
history.
