Robert Wipper | |
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| Роберт Виппер | |
 Wipper in 1910 | |
| Born | Robert Yuryevich Wipper (1859-07-14)July 14, 1859 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | December 30, 1954(1954-12-30) (aged 95) Moscow,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Education | Doctor of Sciences (1894) Academician of theRussian Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1880) |
| Children | Boris Vipper |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | Imperial Moscow University |
| Thesis | Church and state in Geneva of the 16th century in the era of Calvinism |
Robert Yuryevich Wipper (Russian:Роберт Юрьевич Виппер,romanized: Robert Yuryevich Vipper;Latvian:Roberts Vipers; 14 July [O.S. 2 July] 1859 – 30 December 1954) was a Russian, Latvian and Soviet historian ofclassical antiquity, and the medieval and modern periods.
Born inMoscow, Wipper graduated from the faculty of history and philology at theMoscow University in 1880.[1] In 1894, he had become the Doctor of General History and in 1901–1919 was the Professor in Ordinary of the Department of General History. He later attained the professorship.[1] Wipper lectured the history of prehistoric culture, the history of the Ancient East, Greece, theRoman Republic and theRoman Empire, as well as social ideas and the methodology of history.[1] He also authored several historical textbooks.[1] Having emigrated to Latvia, he taught at theUniversity of Latvia until 1940 when the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as theLatvian Soviet Socialist Republic.[2] Wipper's works received the privilege of translation into English for foreign readership.[2] In 1922, Wipper published a book aboutIvan the Terrible. A revised edition of it, published in 1942, was welcomed by Soviet reviewers.[2]The History of Greece of the Classic Epoch (1916) was a personal favorite ofJoseph Stalin. In 1944, Wipper received theOrder of the Red Banner of Labour and theOrder of Lenin in 1945.[1] He also became a member of theAcademy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.[2] Until his death Wipper supported theChrist myth theory.[3]
The first edition of theGreat Soviet Encyclopedia characterized him as "the most talented representative in historical science of the Russianpetty bourgeoisintelligentsia".[2] He died in Moscow at the age of 95.[4]
