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Iosif Kryvelyov

Soviet scholar of religion and historian of Judaism and Christianity (1906-1991) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 85

Iosif Aronovich Kryvelev was a Soviet scholar of religion and historian of Judaism and Christianity. From 1959 until his death, Kryvelev was affiliated with the Ethnography Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

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Awards

Order of the Red Star
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

About this person

By the end of the 1980s Kryvelev remained as virtually the only proponent of Christ myth theory in Soviet academia.

Country
Russia
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1991 · aged 85