About Konstantin Zel'in
Lived 1892 – 1983 (aged 91). Konstantin Zel'in was a Russian docent and classical scholar.
Konstantin Konstantinovich Zel'in (; 1892–1983) was a Soviet Russian historian of classical antiquity, Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences.
Biography He graduated from the Moscow University in 1916. He studied under Professors Robert Wipper and Dmitry Petrushevsky.
From 1926 to 1929, he was a graduate student.
Then he taught at the Institute of Red Professors.
From 1934 he was a professor at the MSU Faculty of History. Zel'in headed the Department of History of the Ancient World.
His both dissertations are devoted to Egypt. He published in Journal of Ancient History.
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Russian historian of classical history;
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Konstantin Zel'in was born on 13 March 1892 in Moscow.
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Konstantin Zel'in died on 30 March 1983 in Moscow.
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Konstantin Zel'in was a docent and classical scholar.
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Konstantin Zel'in was Russian.
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