Robert Wipper

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| name = Robert Wipper

| native_name = {{nobold|Роберт Виппер}}

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| caption = Wipper in 1910

| birth_name = Robert Yuryevich Wipper

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|07|14}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|12|30|1859|06|14}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| field = History

| work_institution = Imperial Moscow University

| alma_mater = Imperial Moscow University (1880)

| education = Doctor of Sciences (1894)

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

| thesis_title = Church and state in Geneva of the 16th century in the era of Calvinism

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| children = Boris Vipper

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Robert Yuryevich Wipper ({{langx|ru|Роберт Юрьевич Виппер|Robert Yuryevich Vipper}}; {{langx|lv|Roberts Vipers}}; {{OldStyleDate|14 July|1859|2 July}} – 30 December 1954) was a Russian, Latvian and Soviet historian of classical antiquity, and the medieval and modern periods.

Biography

Born in Moscow, Wipper graduated from the faculty of history and philology at the Moscow University in 1880.{{cite web | url =http://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/685|title=Виппер Роберт Юрьевич (Георгиевич) |publisher=Moscow University| language=ru| access-date =13 June 2015}} 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. Wipper lectured the history of prehistoric culture, the history of the Ancient East, Greece, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, as well as social ideas and the methodology of history. He also authored several historical textbooks. Having emigrated to Latvia, he taught at the University of Latvia until 1940 when the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. Wipper's works received the privilege of translation into English for foreign readership. In 1922, Wipper published a book about Ivan the Terrible. A revised edition of it, published in 1942, was welcomed by Soviet reviewers. The History of Greece of the Classic Epoch (1916) was a personal favorite of Joseph Stalin. In 1944, Wipper received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order of Lenin in 1945. He also became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Until his death Wipper supported the Christ myth theory.{{cite web | url =http://pstgu.ru/download/1430825026.5_andreev_73-88.pdf |title=Дискуссия об историчности Иисуса Христа в советском религиоведении|author=А. В. Андреев|work=Вестник ПСТГУ|language=ru| date=2015| access-date =13 June 2015}}

The first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia characterized him as "the most talented representative in historical science of the Russian petty bourgeois intelligentsia".{{cite book | editor=Thomas Riha| title =Readings in Russian Civilization, Volume 1: Russia Before Peter the Great, 900-1700| publisher =University of Chicago Press| year =2009| page =98| isbn =978-0226718439}} He died in Moscow at the age of 95.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/01/01/93410690.html?pageNumber=13 "ROBERT G. VIPPER", The New York Times (January 1, 1955, p.13)] Retrieved February 14, 2019

References

Bibliography

{{cite book| title =Imperial Moscow University: 1755-1917: encyclopedic dictionary | last1 = Andreev |first1 = A. |last2 = Tsygankov |first2= D. |location= Moscow |year= 2010 |publisher= Russian political encyclopedia (ROSSPEN) | pages=129–130 | isbn = 978-5-8243-1429-8| ref =Imperial Moscow University}}
Maike Sach. Ein russischer Exil-Historiker in Riga. Robert Ju. Vipper (1859-1954) und sein Beitrag zur lettischen Geschichtswissenschaft in der Zwischenkriegszeit // Baltische Politiker, Historiker und Publizisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hrsg. Norbert Angermann, Detlef Henning, Wilhelm Lenz. Berlin: Lit, 2021, S. 381-406.
Die drei Leben eines Historikers. Robert Vipper (1859–1954) in der russischen, lettischen und sowjetischen Geschichtsschreibung. Ed. Jan Kusber, Ilgvars Misāns, Maike Sach. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024.

Category:1859 births

Category:1954 deaths

Category:20th-century Russian historians

Category:Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Category:Imperial Moscow University alumni

Category:Moscow State University alumni

Category:Academic staff of Imperial Moscow University

Category:Academic staff of the University of Latvia

Category:Writers from Moscow

Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Category:Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 2nd class