Konstantin Zel'in

Konstantin Konstantinovich Zel'in (Russian: Константин Константинович Зельин; 1892–1983) was a Soviet Russian historian of classical antiquity, Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences (1963).^[1]

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Konstantinovich and the family name is Zel'in.

Konstantin Zel'in
Born	13 March 1892 (in Julian calendar)  Moscow
Died	30 March 1983  (aged 91) Moscow
Education	Doctor of Historical Sciences
Alma mater	Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University
Occupation	Classical scholar
Employer	Institute of History of the Soviet Academy of Sciences MSU Faculty of History

Biography

He graduated from the Moscow University in 1916.^[2] He studied under Professors Robert Wipper and Dmitry Petrushevsky.^[3]

From 1926 to 1929, he was a graduate student.^[4]

Then he taught at the Institute of Red Professors.^[5]

From 1934 he was a professor at the MSU Faculty of History. Zel'in headed the Department of History of the Ancient World.^[6]

His both dissertations are devoted to Egypt.^[7] He published in Journal of Ancient History.^[8]