Skaballanovich Nikolay

Skaballanovich Nikolay (1848‒1918) – Byzantinist, historian of the Church, theologian.

He graduated from the Vilna Theological Seminary and, in 1868, entered the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, from which he graduated in 1873. He defended his Master thesis ‘On the Apocrisis by Christopher Philalet’ in the autumn of the same year and, having received Master degree in Theology, remained at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy as Ass. Professor at the Department of Civil History.

Ten years later, in 1884, he defended his thesis for Doctor of Theology (‘The Byzantine State and the Church in the Eleventh Century. From the Death of Basil II the Bulgar Slaeyr to the Accession of Alexios I Komnenos’. St. Petersburg, 1884.) and became Extraordinary Professor at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, later - Ordinary Professor. He served at the Academy until the autumn of 1903, when his resignation request was granted.

Until 1917, he lived in St. Petersburg/Petrograd, and then moved to his hometown of Grodno, where he died in the autumn of 1918.

Compositions

On the Apocrisis by Christopher Philalet. St. Petersburg: K.V. Trubnikov typ., 1873. 225 p.
Galileo before the Court of the Roman Curia // Khristianskoe chtenie. 1878. Iss. 1-2. P. 74-116.
The Byzantine State and the Church in the Eleventh Century. From the Death of Basil II the Bulgar Slaeyr to the Accession of Alexios I Komnenos. St. Petersburg: typ. F. Eleonsky and Co., 1884. 450 p.
Development of Research in the Field of the Byzantine History of the Eleventh Century: Speech on May 18, 1884 at the Defending the Thesis: The Byzantine State and the Church in the Eleventh Century. St. Petersburg, 1884. // Khristianskoe chtenie. 1884. P. 162-180.
Byzantine Science and Schools in the Eleventh Century // Khristianskoe chtenie. 1884. March-April. P. 344-369; 1884. May-June. P. 730-770.
The East – West Schism under Patriarch Michael Cerularius. St. Petersburg, 1884. // Khristianskoe chtenie. 1884. Iss. 11-12. P. 726 - 756; 1885. Iss. 1-2. P. 95 - 145.
On the Mores of Byzantine society in the Middle Ages: (Speech at the Annual Meeting of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, February 17, 1886). St. Petersburg, 1886. // Khristianskoe chtenie. 1996. Iss. 3-4. P. 544 - 592.
The Byzantine State and the Church in the Eleventh Century.. St. Petersburg.: O. Abyshko Publishing House, 2004. Vol. I. 448 p.

About him

Lebedeva G.E. To the History of Studying the Creative Biography of N.A. Skabalanovich // Skabalanovich N.A. The Byzantine State and the Church in the Eleventh Century.. St. Petersburg.: O. Abyshko Publishing House, 2004. P. 5-22.
Lebedeva G.E. From the History of Russian Ecclesiastic History Research: N.A. Skabalanovich. // Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Yekaterinburg: Ural. State University, 2000. Iss. 31. P. 360-369.