Igor Nikolaevich Danilevsky (russian: Игорь Николаевич Данилевский; born 20 May 1953 in

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) is a

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and a specialist on the history of

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and

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until the end of the 16th century.

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, Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Biography

Igor Nikolaevich Danilevsky was born on 20 May 1953 in

. From 1970 to 1975 he studied at the Faculty of History of

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. From 1978—1983 he was a lecturer at the Department of

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of the Faculty of History of Rostov State Pedagogical Institute. In 1981, at the Faculty of History of

Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

Danilevsky defended his thesis on the topic "''Temporary data of written sources and methods of dating of historical facts''". From 1983—1988 he was inspector-methodologist and deputy head of the Department of Public Disciplines Teaching of the Ministry of Education of the

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. From 1988—1989 he was the Director of the Republican Educational and Methodical Cabinet of Higher and Secondary Pedagogical Education of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR. From 1988—1994 he was an

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of the Department of History of the USSR at

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. From 1994—1996 Danilevsky was the Head of laboratory of personality formation at

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. In 1996—2001 he was an Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of the Department of Source Studies and Supporting Historical Disciplines of the Historical Archival Institute of the RSUH. From 2001—2010 he was the Deputy Director for Research and Head of the Department of Social and Cultural Studies of

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. Since 2010 — Head of the Department of History of Ideas and Methodology of Historical Science of the Faculty of History of

Higher School of Economics HSE University (russian: link=no, «Высшая школа экономики», ВШЭ), officially the National Research University Higher School of Economics (russian: link=no, Национальный исследовательский ун ...

. Igor Nikolaevich Danilevsky is the author of more than 150 works.

Main works

* Данилевский И. Н., Пронштейн А. П. Вопросы теории и методики исторического исследования. — М., 1986. * Данилевский И. Н. Древняя Русь глазами современников и потомков (IX—XII вв.): курс лекций. — М.: Аспект-Пресс, 1998 (2-е изд. 2001) * Данилевский И. Н. Русские земли глазами современников и потомков (XII—XIV вв.): курс лекций. — М., 2001. * Данилевский И. Н. Повесть временных лет: герменевтические основы изучения летописных текстов. — М., 2004.

References

External links

"Corporation Kievan Rus"
— an interview at

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