 | Kareyev Nikolai Ivanovich (1850-1931). Historian, philologist, sociologist. After graduating from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Moscow University, he stayed at the University to prepare for professorship. Later he occupied the position of Professor at the University of Warsaw, taught a course in general history, and studied the past of Poland. His doctoral dissertation "Fundamental Aspects of Philosophy of History" (Moscow, 1883) proved to be much disputable. In 1885 Kareyev moved to Saint Petersburg where he headed a department firstly at the Alexander Lyceum, and then at the University and at the Higher Courses for Women. |
On the basis of university courses he published a six-volume work "History of Western Europe at Modern Times" (1892-1917); the first volumes were reissued several times. Published in 1894, "Letters to Students concerning Self-Education" and other papers studying the problem of personality were also published for several times. He went on teaching at the Alexander Lyceum until 1907. In these and following years, N. I. Kareyev continued researching ancient, middle and modern history. A number of historical, philosophical and sociological articles by Kareyev were devoted to the philosophy of history, the essence of the historical process, and methodological problems of sociology. Gymnasium textbooks by Kareyev were very popular. In the Union of Higher Education Workers, founded in 1905, he was chairman of the "academic commission" which worked out the main issues of the structure and everyday life of higher educational institutions. Preparing for the elections to the I State Duma, Kareyev was the chairman of Saint Petersburg city committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party. He was elected Saint Petersburg deputy as this party candidate. After the October Revolution, he stayed in Russia and as a "bourgeois" specialist was dismissed from the University. However, in 1929 he was elected Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, and was given a pension. N. I. Kareyev died in Leningrad on February 18, 1931. | |
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Kareyev N. I. Letters to Students concerning Self-Education. SPb., 1894. | |
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Kareyev N. I. History of Western Europe at Modern Times. V. 2. History of the 17th and 18th centuries. SPb., 1908. |