Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels dating history

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Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels, also written as Berthels, (Russian: Евге́ний Эдуа́рдович Берте́льс | Romanization: Evgeniĭ Ėduardovich Bertel's (25 December 1890, Saint Petersburg — 7 October 1957, Moscow) was a Soviet-Russian orientalist, Iranologist and Turkologist, born in a family of Russian free professionals of Danish ancestry. Professor of the Leningrad State University, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), correspondent member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences (1944), Turkmen Academy of Sciences (1951), Arab Academy of Sciences in Damascus (1955). After World War II Bertels lived and worked in Moscow. After a short-lived interest in entomology, Bertels went into legal studies, graduating from the St. Petersburg Imperial University (1914). But his genuine interest was oriental studies, so he taught himself Persian and Turkish and in 1918 became a student of the Petrograd Conservatory and the Oriental Department of the Petrograd (later Leningrad) State University, where his teachers were Aleksandr A. Romaskevich, Alexander Freiman, Vasily Bartold, and Sergey Oldenburg. Bertels first academic appointment, in 1920, was at the Asiatic Museum (later the Institute of Oriental Studies of USSR Academy of Sciences), where he worked till his death. In 1934, on the occasion of Ferdowsi millennial celebration, held in Tehran, the Soviet Union sent the largest delegation, which included Bertels, he delivered a lecture, in Persian, on Yazdan (i.e. Ahura Mazda, God, or a divine entity) and Ahriman (i.e. Satan, or a demonic entity) in Shahnameh.