Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev was born on May 26, 1921, in Moscow and died on March 13, 2017, in Moscow. He was a Russian historian and writer. Anatoly Chernyaev was a principal foreign-policy advisor to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during the final days of the Soviet Union. When fighting in World War II, he studied history ..
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Prof. Dr. Hab. Irena Homola-Skąpska was born on January 12, 1929 and died on March 4, 2017 in Kraków. She was a Polish historian. Irena Homola-Skąpska graduated from the Jagiellonian University in 1951. In 1989 Homola-Skąpska gained the title of professor. Homola-Skąpska has been collaborated with Polski Słownik Biograficzny since 1955. Irena Homola-Skąpska passed away ..
Mostafa Abdel Hamid el-Abbadi was born on October 10, 1928, Cairo, and died on February 13, 2017, Alexandria. He was a prominent historian of Greco-Roman Egypt and an Egyptian public intellectual. Before his death, he was the Emeritus Professor in Classics at the Alexandria University, he was credited with proposing the revival of the ancient ..
Anne Aaserud was born on July 23, 1942, and died on February 14, 2017. She was a Norwegian art historian and museum director. Anne was assigned with the National Gallery of Norway from 1984 to 1994. Anne graduated as mag.art. from the University of Oslo in 1993. Aaserud was director of the Northern Norway Art ..
Teresa del Conde Pontones was born on January 12, 1935, in Mexico City and died on February 16, 2017. She was a Mexican art critic and art historian. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1958. After receiving a grant she furthered her studies in Rome, earning a ..
Elliot Sperling was born on January 4, 1951, and died in January, 2017. He was an American historian. Sperling was one of the world’s leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations, a MacArthur Fellow and a relentless advocate for human rights. Sperling spent most of his scholarly career (twenty-nine years on the faculty) at Indiana ..
Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski was born Józef Mélèze-Modrzejewski on March 8, 1930, Poland, and died on January 29, 2017. He was a Polish historian and professor of ancient history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski began his scientific career in Poland as a student of Rafał Taubenschlag. He had arrived in France in 1958, he taught for ..
Mustafa Imamović was born in 1941, in Gradačac and died on January 23, 2017. He was a Bosnian historian of state and law. He studied and graduated from the Law Faculty in Belgrade, where he acquired his masters and doctorate. Imamović became a professor of history of state and law at the Faculty of Law ..
Jillian Isobel “Jill” Roe was born on November 10, 1940, at Tumby Bay, South Australia and died on January 12, 2017. She was an Australian historian and academic She wrote a definitive biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) at the Queen’s Birthday Honours ..
Ronan Fanning was born in 1941 and died on January 18, 2017. He was an Irish historian. Fanning was the professor of modern History at University College Dublin and director of archives at the School of History and Archives (University College Dublin). He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Fanning was a member ..