Konstantin Zel'in
Russian historian of classical history;
Intro | Russian historian of classical history; | ||||||||||
Places | Russia | ||||||||||
was | Educator Docent Scholar Classical scholar Historian | ||||||||||
Work field | Academia Literature | ||||||||||
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Birth | 13 March 1892, Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire, Duchy of Moscow | ||||||||||
Death | 30 March 1983Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire, Duchy of Moscow (aged 91 years) | ||||||||||
Star sign | Pisces | ||||||||||
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Konstantin Konstantinovich Zel'in (Russian: Константин Константинович Зельин; 1892–1983) was a Soviet Russian historian of classical antiquity, Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences (1963).
He graduated from the Moscow University in 1916. He studied under Professors Robert Wipper and Dmitry Petrushevsky.
From 1926 to 1929, he was a graduate student.
Then he taught at the Institute of Red Professors.
From 1934 he was a professor at the MSU Faculty of History. Zel'in headed the Department of History of the Ancient World.
His both dissertations are devoted to Egypt. He published in Journal of Ancient History.