Korelin Mikhail Sergeyevich

(1855 - 1899). Born into a prosperous farming family in Moscow Province, graduated from the course at Moscow University on the History and Philology. In 1885 - 1887 years Korelin was on a business trip abroad, mainly in Italy. Since 1889 he lectured (at first - on the history of art) at Moscow University, as a privat-docent. For his thesis "Early Italian humanism and its historiography", because of its outstanding merits, received directly doctorate of World History (sm. Article H. Kareeva: "Italian humanism and its new investigator" in the Journal of Europe ", 1893), after which he was appointed professor of World History at Moscow University. Before the closure of women's higher rates VI. Guerrier read their hearers the story, in 1889 - 1890 and 1891 - 1892 years participated in a systematic course of public lectures. The main scientific interest was directed Korelin on the cultural history, in connection with the history of literature and art. Already on the student's desk, he took up the legend of Faust, and wrote a work that won a gold medal (one chapter of this work was published in the Journal of Europe "for 1882). Then he focused on Italian humanism. The above-mentioned major work it contains a lot of new material, among other things on manuscript sources, and illuminates many aspects of the phenomenon being studied by the author. Death prevented him to continue his work, he just managed to publish several articles (in the book "Sketches of the Italian Renaissance", . 1896, . and in the journal Problems of Philosophy and Psychology ", . since 1897), . Yes something was published after his death ( "Russian Thought", . 1899),
. Public courses Korelin placed in the "Russian Thought" for 1890 and 1892 years: "The most important factors in the development of the medieval papacy," and "cultural crisis in the Roman Empire, then came out into separate books. In the last years of life Korelin engaged in the cultural history of the lectures, . readable for students of secondary schools ( "Egyptian gods and their temples", . "Duomo and its builders, and others) and dreamed of a popular editions of World History,
. He participated in the 82-volume "Encyclopedic Dictionary" Brockhaus - Ephron. In Volume I of the second edition of the Early Italian Humanism "(1914) has a full list of works Korelin and a list of articles about him (VI. Guerrier, VP. Buzeskula, V.O. Kliuchevsky, NI. Kareyev, P.A. Horse and others), as well as its general characteristic. N. Karpov.