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Lev Gumilev

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Also known as Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov, Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev, Lev Gumilyov

Soviet academic (1912-1992)

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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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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Russia
Active from
1886-04-03
Active to
1921-08

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5 total works indexed

  1. Thought and language.

    · 1962 · cited 6,792x

  2. Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

    · 1997 · cited 6,229x

  3. A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?

    · 2011 · cited 6,042x

  4. Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases

    · 1999 · cited 4,928x

  5. Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation

    · 2019 · cited 3,882x

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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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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.

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