![]() ![]() In 1913, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also edited several scholarly journals of Muslim studies, and contributed extensively to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Barthold was the first to publish obscure information from the early Arab historians on the Kievan Rus'. In the two volumes of his dissertation (Turkestan down to the Mongol Invasion, 1898-1900), he pointed out the many benefits the Muslim world derived from Mongol rule after the initial conquests. His career spanned the last decades of the Russian Empire and the first years of the Soviet Union.īarthold's lectures at the University of Saint Petersburg were annually interrupted by extended field trips to Muslim countries. Petersburg to a Russianized German family. Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (Russian: Васи́лий Влади́мирович Барто́льд 1869–1930), who published in the West under his German baptism name, Wilhelm Barthold, was a Russian orientalist who specialized in the history of Islam and the Turkic peoples (Turkology).īarthold was born in St. ![]() His biography has been translated into 24 different languages. With an HPI of 57.36, Vasily Bartold is the 2nd most famous Russian Historian. ![]()
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