Igor Nikolaevich Osinovsky ( February 3, 1929 , Moscow - April 21, 2016 [1] , ibid.) - Soviet and Russian historian and literary critic. Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. The author of 82 scientific works, among which - 4 monographs [2] .
| Igor Nikolaevich Osinovsky | |
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| Date of Birth | February 3, 1929 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , USSR |
| Date of death | April 21, 2016 (87 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |
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| Scientific field | medieval history of Western Europe |
| Place of work | IVI AN USSR , Moscow State Pedagogical University |
| Alma mater | MGPI them. V. I. Lenin |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Historical Sciences (1982) |
| Academic rank | professor (1990) |
| Known as | creative specialist Thomas More |
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Biography
Igor Nikolaevich Osinovsky was born on February 3, 1929 in Moscow in the family of a road engineer Nikolai Ivanovich Osinovsky. He was brought up by his grandmother and grandfather - a complete gentleman of St. George, who received personal nobility for his exploits and service during the First World War [3] . In 1946, the future scientist was admitted to the Aviation Technology Institute, but there, by his own admission, “study was not given” [3] .
In 1947, Osinovsky entered the history department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin [3] . In 1954 he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of historical sciences [4] .
In 1956-1962 he taught at the Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical Institute [4] , then worked as a researcher at the State Historical Museum (Department of Old Russian Art) [4] . From 1962 to 1968 he was an employee of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and from 1968 - the Institute of General History of the same Academy. Concurrently, he taught at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. V.I. Lenin.
In 1982 he received a doctorate in historical sciences (for the monograph Thomas More: Utopian Humanism, Communism, Reformation) [5] , in 1990 - the title of professor [5] . From 1998 to 2015 he taught at the Faculty of History of Moscow City Pedagogical University .
For many years he was the scientific secretary of the editorial board of the Precursors of Scientific Socialism series, and he also edited and reviewed many issues of the collection The Middle Ages. He provided extensive scientific commentary and a great introductory article to Thomas More, a collection of works published in 1998 in the series “ Literary Monuments ”. Work on this collection summed up Osinovsky’s many years of research in the history of English humanism [5] .
He died on April 21, 2016 in Moscow after a long illness.
Selected Bibliography
- Thomas More and the Reformation of Henry VIII // Essays on the Socio-Economic and Political History of England and France of the 12th — 17th Centuries - M., 1960 .-- S. 79-95.
- Thomas More in 20th Century English Historiography // Middle Ages. - 1962. - Issue. 21. - S. 262-274.
- "Utopia" by Thomas More and its critics // Questions of History . - 1968. - No. 7. - S. 67-84.
- The Political Trend of “The Story of Richard III” by Thomas More // Europe in the Middle Ages: Economics, Politics, Culture. - M.:, 1972. - S. 407-420.
- Thomas More. - M., 1974. - ( From the history of world culture ).
- Thomas More: Utopian communism, humanism, reformation. - M., 1978.
- Humanism and the Reformation in England in the first third of the 16th century // Renaissance Culture and Reformation. - L., 1981. - S. 218—226.
- Thomas More. - M., 1985. - ( Thinkers of the Past ).
- Erasmus of Rotterdam, Edward Lee, and Thomas More // Renaissance Culture and the Middle Ages. - M., 1993 .-- S. 82-92.
- Renaissance humanism and the Reformation (some theoretical and methodological aspects of the problem) // Studies in foreign history. - Smolensk, 2000 .-- S. 263-267.
- The Renaissance Anthropomorphism of Thomas More // England and Europe: Problems of History and Historiography. - Arzamas, 2001 .-- S. 136-148.
- Erasmus of Rotterdam and Thomas More. From the history of Renaissance Christian humanism. - M., 2006.
Notes
- ↑ Moscow State Pedagogical University | Igor Nikolaevich Osinovsky 1929 - 2016
- ↑ Bibliography, 2009 , p. 127-131.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Rtishcheva, 2009 , p. 121.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Rtishcheva, 2009 , p. 122.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Rtishcheva, 2009 , p. 125.
Literature
- Bibliography of the works of Professor I. N. Osinovsky // Bulletin of Moscow State Pedagogical University: Series “Historical Sciences”. - 2009. - No. 1 (3). - S. 127-131.
- Rtishcheva, G. A. The Man of the “Big Time” Reflections on the fate and work of Professor I.N. Osinovsky // Vestnik MGPU: Series “Historical sciences”. - 2009. - No. 1 (3). - S. 119-126.
