Vladimir Beneshevich
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August 9, 1874 Druya, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 17, 1938 (aged 63) Leningrad, USSR |
| Known for | Studies of Byzantine history and canon law |
Vladimir Nicolayevich Beneshevich (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Бенешевич; 1874–1938) was a scholar of Byzantine history and canon law, and a philologer and paleographer of the manuscripts in that sphere.
Beneshevich was a corresponding-member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1914, of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1924, and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and of the Strassburg Academy of Sciences from 1929.
Beneshevich was executed by the Soviet regime in 1938, and is one of the Eastern Orthodox Church's "New Martyrs".
Vladimir Nicolayevich Beneshevich was born on August 9, 1874, in Druya, Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Vitebsk Region in Belarus). He was of Belarusian ethnicity. His father was a bailiff at the local court, and his grandfather was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. He had one brother, Dmitri, who was three years older.
Beneshevich graduated 'first class' from Gymnasium in 1893. He then studied law at the Saint Petersburg State University from 1893–1897, graduating with a first-degree diploma. From 1897 until 1901 he studied philosophy, law, and history in Germany, first at the University of Heidelberg, then at the University of Leipzig, and finally at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Upon his return to Russia, he married Amata Ludmila Faddeevne (1888–1967), daughter of professor of classical philology Faddei Zielinski at the University of St. Petersburg. The Beneshevichs had three sons; Nikita (1910-1918) and the twins Dmitri (1911-1937) and George (1911-1937).
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