Eugene Kosminsky

Eugene Alekseyevich Kosminsky (Russian: Евгений Алексеевич Косминский; November 2, 1886 – July 24, 1959) was a Soviet historian and medievalist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (since 1946). He was a professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (since 1919), first Head of the Department of History of the Middle Ages at MSU Faculty of History from 1934 to 1949. Laureate of the 1942 Stalin Prize.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alekseyevich and the family name is Kosminsky.
Eugene Kosminsky
Born2 November 1886 
Warsaw (Russian Empire) 
Died24 July 1959  (aged 72)
Moscow 
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery 
Alma mater
  • Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University 
OccupationHistorian, medievalist and academic
Employer
  • Institute for Philosophie, Literature and History in Moscow
  • Communist Academy
  • Moscow State University 
AwardsStalin Prize (1942)
Order of Lenin (1945, 1954)
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