Vladimir Vikentyev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Vikentyev.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Vikentyev (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Викентьев; 6 July 1882 in Kostroma – 1960 in Cairo) was an Egyptologist from the Russian Empire.

He graduated from the Romano-German department of the faculty of Historical philology at Moscow University (1908-1913) with a first class diploma. In 1915 he was hired by the Historical museum named after Tsar Alexander III. In 1922 he went abroad. He taught Egyptian philology and the ancient history of the Near East at Cairo University.

External links

• Brief account of Vladimir Vikentyev (in Russian)
• Vladimir Mikhailovich Vikentyev on russiangrave.ru (in Russian)