Turaev B.A., (1868-1920), orientalist

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TURAEV Boris Alexandrovich (1868-1920, Petrograd), orientalist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1918). He came to St. Petersburg in 1886. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at St. Petersburg University (1891), where he taught from 1896 (promoted to professor in 1904). He founded an academic school for the study of Ancient Near Eastern History. Turaev is also distinguished for his outstanding contribution to Egyptology and the study of the history of Assyria, Ethiopia and Phoenicia. He was one of the founders of the Institute of Theology and Theological Courses (1919), where he taught liturgies, as well as the Academy of the History of Material Culture. In 1900 to the 1910s, he lived at 3 Second Line of Vasilievsky Island. Turaev was buried at Nikolskoe cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

References: Шаров А. В. Тураев Борис Александрович (1868-1920) // Историки России: Биографии. М., 2001. С. 462-470.

A. A. Kononov. Turaev Boris Alexandrovich
2nd Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Шаров А. В. Тураев Борис Александрович (1868-1920) // Историки России: Биографии. М., 2001 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikolskoe Cemetery