Fyodor Uspensky

Fyodor Ivanovich Uspensky (Russian Фёдор Иванович Успенский, even Fedor I. Uspensky cited; * 7 Februarjul / February 19 1845greg in Galich, .. † September 10, 1928 in Leningrad) was a leading Russian Byzantinist.

Life

Uspenski studied at the University of Saint Petersburg, where he received his doctorate in 1872 Nicetas Choniates. In 1879 he completed his habilitation (Russian PhD ) on the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire. At first he mainly dealt with the relations of Byzantium with Bulgaria, including the economic relations of Byzantium to Russia. He also devoted himself intensively the Crusades. From 1874 he taught at the University of New Russian in Odessa ( the Istanbul nearest Russian university ), but was often on the road and went all the way to Istanbul in 1894, where he founded the Russian Archaeological Institute ( Русский археологический институт в Константинополе ) ( on the site the former Studion monastery ) and stood up for the preservation of Byzantine monuments and libraries in Turkey. He led excavations in Istanbul, Asia Minor, Macedonia and Bulgaria. In 1900 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. In World War I he had to leave Turkey and gave in St. Petersburg magazine Wisantiski Wremenik out. 1922 to 1927 he taught at the University of Saint Petersburg and prepared the publication of his magnum opus, a three-volume history of Byzantium, before which appeared posthumously, as well as his history of the Empire of Trebizond. It shall Vasily Vasilevsky (1838-1898) as the founder of the Russian Byzantine and already in 1886, that is, more than sixty years before the founding of the Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines, the creation of an international byzantinistischen society and the publication of a philological journal for the Byzantine proposed.