George Vernadsky
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George Vernadsky
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| Native name | Гео́ргий Влади́мирович Верна́дский |
| Born |
August 20, 1887 Saint Petersburg,  Russia
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| Died | June 12, 1973 (aged 85) New Haven,  United States
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| Fields | Russian history |
| Institutions |
Saint Petersburg University Russian School of Law Yale University |
| Alma mater |
Moscow University Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg University of Berlin |
| Academic advisors | Heinrich Rickert, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Robert Vipper |
| Notable students | John Curtis Perry |
George Vernadsky (August 20, 1887 – June 12, 1973), Russian: Гео́ргий Влади́мирович Верна́дский) was a Russian-born American historian and an author of numerous books on Russian history.
Born in Saint Petersburg on August 20, 1887, Vernadsky stemmed from a respectable family of the Russian intelligentsia. His father was Vladimir Vernadsky, famous Russian geologist. He entered the Moscow University (where his father was professor) in 1905 but, due to the disturbances of the First Russian Revolution, had to spend the next two years in Germany, at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the University of Berlin, where he imbibed the doctrines of Heinrich Rickert.
Back in Russia, Vernadsky resumed his course at the Moscow University, graduating with honors in 1910. His instructors included the historians Vasily Klyuchevsky and Robert Vipper. The young scholar declined to continue his career in the university after the 1910 Kasso affair and moved to Saint Petersburg University, where he taught for the next seven years, during which he was awarded the Master's degree for his dissertation on the effects of Freemasonry on the Russian Enlightenment.
Politically close to the kadet party (of which his father was one of the leaders), Vernadsky began his career as a supporter of liberal ideas, authoring the biographies of Nikolai Novikov and Pavel Milyukov. During the years of the Russian Civil War (1917–1920), he lectured for a year in Perm. He then taught in Kiev and then followed the White Army to Simferopol, where he taught at the local university for two years.
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