Education
Vasiliev studied under one of the earliest professional Byzantinists, Vasily Vasilievsky, at the University of Street St. Petersburg and later taught Arabic language there.
historian university professor
Vasiliev studied under one of the earliest professional Byzantinists, Vasily Vasilievsky, at the University of Street St. Petersburg and later taught Arabic language there.
Foreign other persons of a similar name, see Alexander Vasilyev (disambiguation). His History of the Byzantine Empire (volume 1–2, 1928) remains one of a few comprehensive accounts of the entire Byzantine history, on the par with those authored by Edward Gibbon and Fyodor Uspensky. Between 1897 and 1900, he furthered his education in Paris.
In 1902, he accompanied Nicholas Marr in his trip to Saint Catherine"s Monastery in Sinai.
During his stay at the Tartu University (1904-1912), Vasiliev prepared and published a highly influential monograph, Byzantium and the Arabs (1907). He also worked in the Russian Archaeology Institute, established by Fyodor Uspensky in Constantinople.
In 1912, he moved to the Street St. Petersburg University as a professor He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1919.
In 1925, during his visit to Paris, Vasiliev was persuaded by Michael Rostovtzeff to emigrate to the West.
lieutenant was Rostovtzeff who ensured a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for him. Several decades later, Vasiliev moved to work in Dumbarton Oaks. Towards the end of his life, he was elected President of the Nikodim Kondakov Institute in Prague and of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines.
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Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.