Aron Gurevich Biography

Subscribe to new items will send a notification of new books, audiobooks, podcasts Russian culturologist, medical historian, founder of historical anthropology in Russia. Aron Yakovlevich Gurevich was born on May 12 in Moscow. He graduated from school with honors, then worked at the factory and studied in parallel at the correspondence department of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

Gurevich on the author about the author of a Russian culturalist, a media historian, founder of historical anthropology in Russia. Gurevich began as a historian of the socio-economic direction, but after the defense of the candidate dissertation, he turned to the history of the Middle Ages and Scandinavian culture. The cultural expert on the culture of Western Europe taught at the Kaluga Pedagogical Institute, the Tver State University, headed the Center for Historical and Cultural Anthropology Ivi RAS, was in charge of the Department of Culture and Science of the Medieval and Modern Europe of the Institute of World Culture of Moscow State University.

Aron Gurevich is a corresponding member of the American Academy of Medipvystry, a participant in the Royal Society of Historians of Great Britain and the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands.

The historian taught in prestigious European universities. Scientific works Aron Yakovlevich published more works and fourteen books. His works are translated into dozens of foreign languages. The historian proposed a new concept of the origin of feudalism, which was described in the book "Problems of the genesis of feudalism." He continued to explore this topic in the work of "Categories of medieval culture." The book received worldwide recognition and was translated into 30 languages.

In the future, the historian was engaged in the study of the issue of a medieval individual. He considered it in two plans: at the level of analysis of autobiographical texts and at the level of generalized socio-psychological characteristics. Gurevich believed that the personality problem is currently occupied by central to a place in historical anthropology.

Studying the biographies of writers and thinkers of that time, he seeks to identify the features of personal identity. The manual “Individual and society in the medieval West” will tell in detail about these studies. The scientist's books had a huge impact on the development of modern historical science. The following works will help closer to the research and discoveries of the historian: “The individual and society in the medieval West”; "Viking campaigns"; “Problems of the genesis of feudalism in Western Europe”; "Problems of medieval folk culture." The last years of his life, despite blindness, Aron Yakovlevich continued to work and publish scientific articles.

The historian passed away on August 5. Gurevich’s memoirs “History of the History” will tell about the views and life of the scientist.