About Boris Bogoslovsky
Lived 1890 – 1966 (aged 75–76). Boris Bogoslovsky was a teacher.
Boris Basilyevich Bogoslovsky (; 29 April 1890 – 2 December 1966) was a Russian-American teacher and United Nations official.
Bogoslovsky was born in Ryazan, Russian Empire. In 1920, he immigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He married a Swedish teacher, Christina Staël von Holstein, and the pair taught at the Cherry Lawn School, a progressive boarding school in Darien, Connecticut. In 1933, they became co-directors of the school. Bogoslovsky taught science there until 1945, when he joined the United Nations as a translator in the UN's Russian Language Section.
He died in 1966 in Charleston, Illinois.
Works The technique of controversy: principles of dynamic logic, 1928. In the series The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. The ideal school, 1936.
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