Yevgeny Yevsigneyevich Golubinsky (russian: Евгений Евсигнеевич Голубинский; 28 February 1834 – 7 January 1912) was one of three major

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s of the

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, along with

Macarius Bulgakov Metropolitan Macarius (russian: link=no, Митрополи́т Мака́рий, born Mikhail Petrovich Bulgakov, russian: link=no, Михаи́л Петро́вич Булга́ков; –), was the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna in 1879– ...

and

Filaret Gumilevsky Archbishop Filaret (Филарет Гумилевский, born Dmitry Grigorievich Gumilevsky; 1805-1866) was the Russian Orthodox Bishop of Riga (1841–48), Archbishop of Kharkov (1848–59), and Archbishop of Chernigov (1859–66). The son of ...

. He was considered the foremost authority on the Russian medieval

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s. Golubinsky was the son of an

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priest from the district of

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who gave him the surname of Fyodor Golubinsky, a religious philosopher from

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. He was educated in the church schools of

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and Kostroma before completing his studies at the

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. In 1872 and 1873, he travelled to the

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and

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. Golubinsky's most highly regarded work examines the

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practices of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1881, he was awarded the

Uvarov Prize Count Aleksey Sergeyevich Uvarov (Russian: Алексей Сергеевич Уваров; 28 February 1825 – 29 December 1884) was a Russian archaeologist often considered to be the founder of the study of the prehistory of Russia. Biography ...

for his outline of the history of the Russian Church. At the theological academy, Golubinsky repeatedly ran afoul of his conservative minded colleagues such as

Konstantin Pobedonostsev Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev ( rus, Константи́н Петро́вич Победоно́сцев, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ pəbʲɪdɐˈnostsɨf; 30 November 1827 – 23 March 1907) was a Russian jurist, statesman, ...

, because he employed the innovative method of

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: "the objective study of a phenomenon to find a positive solution based on logic as opposed to superstition or some other nonrational approach".Quoted from: Lawrence P. King. ''Theories of the New Class: Intellectuals and Power''. University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Pages 7-8. As a result of these conflicts, some of his works have never been published, although he was elected into the

Petersburg Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

in 1902. He went blind four years later.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Golubinsky Historians of the Russian Orthodox Church Scholars in Eastern Orthodoxy 1834 births 1912 deaths Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Blind academics Historians from the Russian Empire