Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich - a famous Soviet and Russian historian. Most of his works were written in the period of Ancient Russia. Until the end of the 16th century. He has the status of a professor and the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences. Author of numerous books, monographs, manuals.
Biography of a scientist
Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich was born on May 20, 1953 in Rostov-on-Don. Immediately after school, he entered the Faculty of History and Law in Rostov. Ever since his student days, he was most interested in the history of the ancient Russian state. This specialization remained interesting to him throughout his career as a scientist.
In 1975 he graduated from the university with honors and received the qualification of a teacher of history and social studies.
However, I did not go to work at school, I stayed to work at the university. At first he worked at the Department of Source Studies. Since 1978, he moved to the position of assistant, and soon began his own teaching career. Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich lectured students on the history of the USSR.
Soon took up the position of Deputy Dean at his native Rostov State University, which by that time had received the statuspedagogical.
Dissertation defense
In 1981 Danilevsky Igor Nikolayevich summed up the preliminary results of his first scientific works. He defended his dissertation with a degree in historiography.
The defense was held at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The most authoritative scientists of the country at the department of history evaluated the level of work of a young Rostov researcher. At that time, he was only 28 years old.
The defense of the dissertation was based on the dating of historical facts and data from written sources. Danilevsky was engaged in the study of this problem all the time after graduation. The work was recognized as brilliant, according to the results of the defense, Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich, whose biography was now forever associated with science, received the title of candidate of science.
Further career
After successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis, Danilevsky moved from Rostov-on-Don to the capital. In Moscow in May 1983, he began working at the Main Directorate of Higher and Secondary Pedagogical Educational Institutions. The department is subordinate to the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR. At first, he holds the position of a methodologist, then he takes the post of head of the teaching department. Together with their colleagues, they determine the features of the study of history in schools, secondary vocational and higher educational institutions of the country.
In five years Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich, whose lectures are well known and lovedstudents, since he does not interrupt his teaching activities, he goes on promotion.
In the structures of the Ministry of Education, a decision is made to appoint him director of the Republican Educational and Methodological Cabinet of Higher and Secondary Pedagogical Education. Now he directly manages the entire structure, makes decisions about which textbooks and which authors will be placed on the table of schoolchildren and students throughout the republic.
Work at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute
During the period of perestroika, in 1989, Danilevsky went to work in one of the largest pedagogical universities in the country - Moscow State Pedagogical University. He was immediately appointed to the post of associate professor of the Department of History of the USSR. Moreover, he studies only the pre-Soviet period, without touching on topics related to the victory of the October Revolution, which during this period become controversial and debatable at all levels.
The subject of Danilevsky's close study is the history of Ancient Russia. He spends a lot of time in the archives, publishing monographs and articles in scientific journals.
In the mid-90s, Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich, whose photo adorned the board of honor of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, went to work at the Russian Academy of Education. Here he became the head of the laboratory at the historical department of the corresponding institute. Danilevsky studies the question of how great is the role of the individual in the historical process. He is especially interested in the events of a thousand years ago.
In 1996, for deeper academic research, he moved toHistorical and Archival Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities. In this university, he again, as at the beginning of his academic career, becomes the head of the Department of Source Studies. Including works with auxiliary historical disciplines.
In the Russian Academy of Sciences
In 2001 he became a specialist at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Danilevsky - Deputy Director for Research, Head of the Department of Sociocultural Research. He held this position until 2010. After that, he retired from active scientific and pedagogical activity.
In 2004 he received his Ph. D. At the Russian State University for the Humanities he defended his dissertation on the study of chronicle texts. His contribution to this area of historiography is invaluable, his research is still used by students and teachers of the history of Russian and foreign universities.
In 2008 he became a professor, and in 2016 he became a member of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education.
Publications
Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich, whose books are well known to all modern historians, during his career became the author of one and a half hundred scientific publications.
His works of the 80s are devoted to the theory and methodology of historical research. In the 2000s, he concentrated on the problems of Ancient Russia. In 2003, his edition of The Tale of Bygone Years saw the light of day. Particular emphasis was placed on the peculiarity of creating and writing chronicle texts.
