Timofey Granovsky
Timofey Nikolayevich Granovsky (9 March 1813 – 4 October 1855) was a founder of mediaeval studies in the Russian Empire.
Granovsky was born in Oryol, Russia.[1] He studied at the universities of Moscow and Berlin, where he was profoundly influenced by Hegelian ideas of Leopold von Ranke and Friedrich Karl von Savigny. He felt that the Western history was superior to his own country's and became the first Russian to deliver courses on the medieval history of Western Europe (1839). Due to the strict censorship of the period, Granovsky assumed that lecturing provided a surer way of disseminating Western ideals in Russia than writing. The best regarded of his printed works is an innovator to disprove the historicity of Vineta.
His readings in the Moscow University were immensely popular and brought him in touch with other Westernizers. One of these, Alexander Herzen, described Granovsky's lectures as "a draught of freedom in Nicholas I's Russia".
Granovsky is portraited in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed as Stepan Trofimovich.
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- ^ "Oryol". Government of Oryol Oblast'. http://www.adm.orel.ru/index.php?head=2&part=3&unit=52&in=6. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
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