Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Gerasimov (English Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian Михаил Михайлович Герасимов; born September 2, 1907 in Saint Petersburg, † July 21, 1970 in Moscow) was a Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and sculptor.

In 1928 he discovered the Palaeolithic Place of Malta ( Irkutsk Oblast ) in Russia. Under his leadership there an Upper Palaeolithic settlement was excavated.

He developed the first technique to make on the basis of findings from anthropology, archeology, paleontology and forensics forensic facial reconstruction. He studied the skull and meticulously reconstructed the faces of more than 200 people, including Rudaki (Abu Abdullah Djafar; 858 to about 941), Yaroslav the Wise († 1054 ), Nestor of Kiev ( 1050-1113 ), Tamerlane ( Timur ibn Taraghai Barlas; 1336-1405), Shah Ruch (1377-1447), Ivan IV ( " the Terrible "; 1530-1584 ), Fyodor I. ( Russia) ( 1557-1598 ) and Friedrich Schiller ( 1759-1805 ).

Writings (selection )

  • The Paleolithic site of Malta. Excavations of 1956-1958. In EN Michael (ed.): The Archaeology and Geomorphology of Northern Asia. No. 5, pp. 3-32, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Toronto, 1964 ( from Russian sources )
  • Helga Menzel Tettenborn ( Preface and German editing): I was looking faces. Skull get back her face. Science in new ways. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1968
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