Background
Faina Abramovna Kogan-Bernstein (nee Arongauz) was born on August 19, 1976 in the city of Mariampol of the Suvalki Governorate (now Mariampoles, Marijampoles Apskritis, Lithuania).
Faina Abramovna Kogan-Bernstein (nee Arongauz) was born on August 19, 1976 in the city of Mariampol of the Suvalki Governorate (now Mariampoles, Marijampoles Apskritis, Lithuania).
Faina Abramovna worked at the Moscow K. Marx and F. Engels Institute (since 1922), the Institute of History of the Communist Academy. Associate Professor, Professor of the Middle Ages History Department, Moscow State University (1938-1956), professor of the Voronezh State Pedagogical Institute (1949-1950; part-time), professor at the Moscow Institute of History and Archives (1956-1971).
She is the author of biographical essays on Thomas More, Michel de Montaigne, Pierre de la Ramos, Francis Bacon. She translated some works of Leonardo da Vinci, Francois Rabelais. She prepared publications (in the series "Literary Monuments") of "New Atlantis" by Francis Bacon (Moscow, 1954), "Experiments" by Michel de Montaigne (Moscow, 1979), "Discourses on Voluntary Slavery" by Etienne de La Boesy (Moscow, 1952, 1962).