Beneshevich Vladimir

Beneshevich Vladimir (1874–1938) – Byzantinist, archeographer, paleographer, historian of canonic law. Prof. of the St. Petersburg University, Head of the Chair of Ecclesiastic Law (1909), Prof. of the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy (1907-1909), of the Military Law Academy (1909-1911). Correspondent Member of the Ac. of Sc., Department of History and Philology (1924). Member of the Strasburg Ac. of Sc. (1914), Bavarian Ac. of Sc. (1927), Berlin Ac. of Sc. (1929). Honourary Doctor of Law of the University of Athens (1912), Honourary Member of the Athens Society for Byzantine Research (1927). Scholar and active administrator of research work, member of numerous academic committees.

Before 1917, he was known with his free-thinking, that is why he was fired out the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy and from the Military Law Academy; he was under the arrest. After 1922, he was also several times under the arrest; his last arrest took place on November 27, 1937; B. was shot on January 27, 1938. He was excluded from the Ac. of Sc. at the General Assembly on April 29, 1938; restored on December 19, 1958 – after his rehabilitation by the Military Court on August 27, 1958.

Compositions

Two Copies of Slavic Translation of Syntagma by Mathew Blastares, Kept in the St. Petersburg Synodal Library: Their Description and Texts. St. Petersburg, 1902. (in Rus.)
The Canonic Collection of XIV Titles from the Second Quarter of the Seventh Century till 883. By the Most Ancient History of Sources of Canons of the Greek Eastern Church. St. Petersburg, 1905. (in Rus.)
Old Slavic Kormchaya of XIV Titles without Interpretation. St. Petersburg, 1907, vol. 1; Sophia, 1987, vol. 2. (in Rus.)
The Armenian Synaxarium on Stt Boris and Gleb. St. Petersburg, 1909. (in Rus.)
A Description of Greek Manuscripts of the St Catherine Monastery on Sinai. St. Petersburg, 1911—1917, vol. 1—3. (in Rus.)
Synagogue in 50 Titles and Other Canonic Collections by Jhon Scholactic. By the Most Ancient History of Sources of Canons of the Greek Eastern Church. St. Petersburg, 1914. (in Rus.)
A Collection of Monuments on the History of Ecclesiastic Canons, mainly of Russian Church before the Epoch of Peter the Great. Petrograd, 1915, iss. 1—2. (in Rus.)
Acts of the Vazelon Monastery. Materials on the History of Peasants and Monastic Landownership in Byzantine in the Eighth – Fifteenth Centuries. Leningrad, 1927 (with F. I. Uspensky). (in Rus.)
Corpus scriptorum juris graeco-romani tam canonici quam civilis. Sofia, 1935.

Bibliography

Granstrem Е. E. V. N. Beneshevich // Vizantiisky vremennik. 1973, vol. 35, pp. 239-243. (in Rus.)
Bio-Bibliographic Materials V. N. Beneshevich / Edit. Ya. N. Shchapov // Beneshevich V. N. Old Slavic Kormchaya of XIV Titles without Interpretation. Sophia, 1987, vol. 2. (in Rus.)

About him

Uspensky F., Buzeskul V., Krachkovsky P., Marr N. A Note on Research Works by V. N. Beneshevich // Izvestiya of the Russian Ac. of Sc. 1924, ser. 6, vol. 18, pp. 536-538. (in Rus.)
Granstrem Е. E. V. N. Beneshevich // Vizantiisky vremennik. 1973, vol. 35, pp. 235-243. (in Rus.)
Shchapov Ya. N., Begunov Yu. C. On Completing of the Publication of the Old Slavic Kormchaya of XIV Titles without Interpretation // Byzantinobulgarica. Sofia, 1973, vol. 4, pp. 105-112. (in Rus.)
Shchapov Ya. N. Collections of Byzantine Canons in the Research and Publications by Prof. V. N. Beneshevich // Klio. 1979. Bd. 61. S. 235-242. (in Rus.)
Shchapov Ya. N. From the History of Soviet Historical Research: Prof. V. N. Beneshevich in the Repressive System of the Late 1920-s – 1930-s // Controversial Issues of the national History of the Eleventh – Eighteenth Centuries. Reports Annot. for the First Reading in A. A. Zimin Memory. Moscow, 1990, pp. 306-309. (in Rus.)
Gerd L. А. The Photoarchive of V. N. Beneshevich // Archives of Russian Byzantinists in St. Petersburg. pp. 381-388. (in Rus.)
Medvedev I. P. V. N. Beneshevich: The Destiny of Scholar, the Destiny of Archive // Ibid, pp. 339-381. (in Rus.)
Medvedev I. P. On One Not Fulfilled Project of 1930-s Publication of Russian Translation of ‘Secret History’ by Procopius of Caesaria: Unknown Documents // Vizantiisky vremennik. 1995 (1996), vol. 56 (81), pp. 320-331. (in Rus.)
Medvedev I. P. A Lesson by Beneshevich // Byzantine Essays. Moscow, 1996, pp. 187-205. (in Rus.)
Medvedev I. P. By the History of Studying Translated Texts in Novgorod of the Late Fifteenth Century // Novgorodsky istoricheskyi sbornik. 1997, vol. 6 (16), pp. 165-174. (in Rus.)
Medvedev I. P. On a Not Fulfilled Project by V. N. Beneshevich on Publication of a Corpus of Sources in Byzantine Canonic Law (on the Base of Non Published Data) // Vizantiisky vremennik. 1997, vol. 57 (82), pp. 249-272. (in Rus.)
Medvedev I. P. Non Published materials of V. N. Beneshevich on the History of Byzantine Studies // Manuscript Heritage of Russian Byzantinists in the Archives of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, 1999, pp. 574-611. (in Rus.)
Medvedev I. P. Letters in Defense of V. N. Beneshevich // Problems of the World History. St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 72-82. (in Rus.)

Beneshevich Vladimir

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