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David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

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David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Born
Dutch: David Hendrick Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

1957
Netherlands
DiedMarch 14, 2022(2022-03-14) (aged 64–65)
Canada
NationalityDutch Canadian
CitizenshipCanada
Scientific career
ThesisEx Oriente Lux: Ideologies of Empire and Russia’s Far East, 1895–1904 (1997)

David Hendrick Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, FRSC, KStJ (/shɪməljpænjɪnək/; 1957–2022),[1] was a Canadian historian who was a professor of the history of Russia at Brock University. He also was a member of the Canadian Association of Slavists.

Biography

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Schimmelpenninck van der Oye was born in the Netherlands in 1957. On his mother's side he was of Russian descent: his grandfather fled the country as part of the White Army under the command of Pyotr Wrangel in 1921. In 1967 David moved in Canada. As a child, he had a dream of one day becoming a diplomat, but subsequent military service as a Canadian Army reservist made him extremely skeptical of public service.[2]

In 1982 Schimmelpenninck van der Oye entered in the finance world. He worked in Midland Doherty Ltd, Toronto (1982–1985) and in Enskilda Securities, London (1988–1989) and at the same time received a higher education in Russian history in Yale University. From 1989 Schimmelpenninck van der Oye worked in Brock University.[2] In 1997 David graduated from this university with a PhD. degree with the thesis Ex Oriente Lux: Ideologies of Empire and Russia’s Far East, 1895–1904.[3] In 2015 he was elected in the Royal Society of Canada.[4]

In 2016, Schimmelpenninck van der Oye found himself at the centre of a sex scandal when his student, who wished to remain anonymous, complained to CBC News that two years ago he invited her and a male student to drink alcohol. Later, when he was alone with her, he made her a sexual proposal, but the girl immediately refused. David was later suspended from teaching, but returned to teaching in 2019.[5]

Schimmelpenninck van der Oye died at the age of 64 on 14 March 2022.[1]

Selected works

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  • Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David (2001). Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-875-80276-3. (about of the causes of the Russo-Japanese War, translated into Russian)[6][7]
  • — (2002). "The Russo-Japanese War". In Kagan, Frederick W.; Higham, Robin (eds.). The Military History of Tsarist Russia. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America, Inc. pp. 183–201. doi:10.1007/978-0-230-10822-6. ISBN 978-0-312-22635-0.
  • — (2002). "Restricted Access «To Build a Great Russia»: Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907–12". In Lohr, Eric; Poe, Marshall (eds.). The Military and Society in Russia, 1450–1917. Leiden and Boston: Brill. pp. 293–321. doi:10.1163/9789047401070_019. ISBN 978-90-04-12273-4.
  • — (2006). "Russian foreign policy, 1815—1917". In Lieven, Dominic (ed.). The Cambridge History of Russia. Vol. 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 554–575. ISBN 978-0-521-81529-1.
  • — Steinberg, John W.; Menning, Bruce W.; Wolff, David; Yokote, Shinji, eds. (2006). The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004154162.i-583.2. ISBN 978-9-004-14284-8.
  • — Atroshchenko, Olʹga; Bagdami︠a︡n, Irina; Bulatov, V. Ė. (2010). Russia's Unknown Orient: Orientalist Paintings 1850–1920. Rotterdam / Oostkamp: NAi Uitgevers / Publishers Stichting. ISBN 978-9-056-62762-1 – via the Internet Archive.
  • — Betteley, Marie (2020). Beyond Fabergé: Imperial Russian Jewelry. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-764-36043-5.
  • — (2021). Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration. New Heaven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16289-9. JSTOR j.ctt1nq5fp. ('In this highly original and controversial book, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917',[8] translated into Russian)[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye KStJ, FRSC Historian". The Globe and Mail. 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2024 – via Legacy.com.
  2. ^ a b Robinson, Paul (2022). "David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1957–2022". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 64 (2/3). Ontario: Canadian Association of Slavists: 130–132. doi:10.1080/00085006.2022.2104542. ISSN 0008-5006 – via Taylor and Francis.
  3. ^ Thurston 1998, p. 957.
  4. ^ Majtenyi, Cathy (10 September 2015). "Brock professor receives highest academic honour". The Brock News. Brock University. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  5. ^ Beattie, Samantha (3 January 2019). "David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye, Prof Who Sexually Harassed Student, Returns To Brock University Classroom". HuffPost. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  6. ^ Hosking, Geoffrey (2003). "Book Review: Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. By David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+329. $40.00". The Journal of Modern History. 75 (3). University of Chicago Press: 740–742. doi:10.1086/380281. ISSN 0022-2801. JSTOR 380281.
  7. ^ Polunov, Alexander [in Russian] (2010). "Рец. на кн.: Д. Схиммельпеннинк ван дер Ойе. Навстречу восходящему солнцу: как имперское мифотворчество привело Россию к войне с Японией. М.,: Новое литературное обозрение" [Book Review: Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. By David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. Moscow: NLO]. Russian History (in Russian) (5). Nauka: 203–204. ISSN 0869-5687.
  8. ^ "Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration". yalebooks.yale.edu. Yale University. 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  9. ^ Bassin, Mark (2012). "Book Review: Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration. By David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+298. $40.00". The Journal of Modern History. 84 (1). University of Chicago Press: 270–272. doi:10.1086/663173. ISSN 0022-2801. JSTOR 663173.

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