Boris Basil Bogoslovsky (; 29 April 1890 – 2 December 1966) was a Russian-American teacher and

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official. Bogoslovsky was born in

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, Russian Empire. In 1920, he immigrated to the

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, where he became a naturalized citizen.Christian E. Burckel, ed., ''Who's Who in the United Nations'', 1951 He married a Swedish teacher, Christina Staël von Holstein, and the pair taught at the Cherry Lawn School, a progressive boarding school in

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. In 1933, they became co-directors of the school. Bogoslovsky taught science there until 1945, when he joined the

as a translator in the UN's Russian Language Section. He was also an observer and translator for the U.S. government at the

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.J. E. Bunting, ''Private independent schools: The American private schools for girls and boys'', 1972, p.78 He died in 1966 in

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Works

* ''The technique of controversy: principles of dynamic logic'', 1928. In the series

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. * ''The ideal school'', 1936.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bogoslovosky Boris 1890 births 1966 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States 20th-century American educators American officials of the United Nations People from Ryazan