Boris G. Weber, Doctor of Historical Sciences, died on July 12, 1984. B. G. Weber was born on August 22, 1902 in St. Petersburg in the family of a history teacher. In 1925, he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University. After successfully completing postgraduate studies at the Institute of History, RANION Boris Georgievich worked in 1932-1933 as a research associate of the Commission of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR for publishing documents of the imperialist era, and later as a scientific editor of the New History department of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. In the 1930s, he simultaneously gave lectures and conducted seminars at the Evening City Pedagogical Institute, the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute, and the N. G. Chernyshevsky Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature. In 1941, B. G. Weber defended his PhD thesis on " The historian of Political Compromise. E. Halevi's Tradition, Environment, and Evolution". During the Great Patriotic War B. G. Weber was at the front, as part of the Active Army. Returning to scientific work after the war, he was scientific secretary of the Commission on the History of Historical Science. Since 1950, for more than three decades, his scientific activity has been associated first with the Institute of History, and later with the Institute of General History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1971, B. G. Weber defended his doctoral dissertation on "Historiographical problems of Modern Times"at the Institute of General History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. B. G. Weber's research covered a wide range of issues in the history of modern times and the history of historical science. He has written works on modern historiography, Soviet historiography of modern history, Russian pre-revolutionary historiography of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, German historiography of the 19th century, and studies on the history of international relations in modern times. The influence ... Read more