Konstantin Zel'in

Russian historian of classical history;
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IntroRussian historian of classical history;
PlacesRussia
wasEducator Docent Scholar Classical scholar Historian
Work fieldAcademia Literature
Gender
Male
Birth13 March 1892, Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire, Duchy of Moscow
Death30 March 1983Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire, Duchy of Moscow (aged 91 years)
Star signPisces
Education
Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow UniversityRussian Empire
institut historique RANION
Moscow State UniversityRamenki District, Western Administrative Okrug, Russia
Employers
Moscow Mining AcademyRussian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
MSU Faculty of HistoryRussia
Institute of History of the Soviet Academy of SciencesSoviet Union
Institute of ArchaeologyMoscow, Moscow Governorate, Russia
Institute of Red ProfessorsSoviet Union
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Biography

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).

Biography

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.

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