Vasily Vasilievich Struve

Vasily Vasilievich Struve, also Struve, Russian Василий Васильевич Струве, English transliteration Vasily Vasilievich Struve (. * 21 Januarjul / February 2 1889greg in Saint Petersburg, . † September 15, 1965 in Leningrad) was a Russian classical scholar, orientalist, historian, historian of mathematics and Egyptologist.

Life and work

Struwe ( a member of the famous Baltic German scientists Family Struve ) studied classical philology at the University of Saint Petersburg and Egyptology at Boris Alexandrovich Turajew. In 1911 he graduated and then continued his scientific work at the University continued. In 1913, he studied in Germany under Adolf Erman. In 1916 he was a lecturer at the Petrograd University and from 1920 professor. In 1928 he received his PhD (Candidate of Sciences) on Manetho. He also received an honorary Doctor of Soviet science. From 1918 to 1933 he was head of the Egyptian department of the Hermitage. Even as a university lecturer, he also began the study of Akkadian, Hebrew and other Semitic languages ​​at the Orientalists and Academician Pavel Kokovtsov and Sumerian in personal study. In 1935 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. 1937 to 1940 he was age at the top of the ethnographic department of the Academy and from 1941 to 1950 director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy and from 1959 Head of the Orient at this institute.

He was with Turajew publisher of the translation of the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus ( " Mathematical Papyrus of the State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow '', sources and studies of the history of mathematics, astronomy and physics, A, Vol.1, 1930). He also translated numerous demotic documents from the museums of the Soviet Union. He also dealt with the general cultural history of the Ancient Near East and published a book about the ancient history of the region of the Black Sea.

Struve was the head of a Russian school of orientalists and Egyptologists. One of his students was Otto Neugebauer.

Writings

• Publisher: History of the Old World. Chrestomathy, 3 vols, Berlin, Volk und Wissen, 1954, 1957, 1959 ( Vol.1 The Old Orient, Vol.2 Greece and Hellenism, Bd.3 Rome), Translated from Russian