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Lev Gumilev
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Soviet academic (1912-1992)
Lev Gumilev was a Soviet scholar who developed influential theories about how geographical and climatic factors shape the rise and fall of civilizations and ethnic groups. His work remains significant because it shaped debates about history, ethnicity, and culture, though his ideas have been both celebrated and criticized by modern scholars.
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Key facts
- Born
- 1 October [ O.S. 18 September ] 1912, Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
- Died
- 15 June 1992 (1992-06-15) (aged 79), Saint Petersburg , Russia
- Doctoral advisor
- Nikolai Kuehner
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Russian philosophy
- School
- Eurasianism
- Institutions
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Doctoral students
- Gelian Prokhorov
- Main interests
- Philosophy of history , history , ethnology , turkology , cultural studies , geopolitics , religious studies
- Notable ideas
- Eurasianism , passionarity
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lev
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Pushkin
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Father
- Nikolay Gumilev
- Mother
- Anna Akhmatova
- Occupation
- ethnologist
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Doctoral advisor
- Vasily Vasilievich Struve
- Student of
- Yevgeny Tarle
- Field of work
- oriental studies
- Conflict
- Eastern Front
- Image
- ЛевГумилёв1934.jpg
- Significant event
- rehabilitation
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- Commons category
- Lev Gumilev
- date of birth
- 1912-10-01
- date of death
- 1992-00-00
- place of burial
- Nikolskoe Cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Lavra
- name in native language
- Лев Николаевич Гумилёв
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Encyclopedic overview
Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism.
Life
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