Pyotr Osipovich Karyshkovskij-Ikar (March 12, 1921,

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...

– March 6, 1988, Odessa) - Ukrainian Soviet historian, numismatist, a scholar and lexicographer. Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, since 1963 and until his last days he headed the department of ancient history and medieval

Odessa University Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University ( uk, Одеський національний університет Iмені І. І. Мечникова, translit=Odeskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni I. I. Mechnykova), located in Odesa, Ukraine, i ...

Biography

In 1945 he graduated from the Faculty of History of

. In 1946–1948 he was a graduate student of World History (Ancient and Byzantine History). In 1951 Peter Osipovich completed his master's thesis (''Political relations between the

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and

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in the years 967–971'') and at the same time began to publish articles in journals ''Questions of History'', ''Byzantine chronicle'', ''Journal of Ancient History'' on Russian-Byzantine relations in the 10th century. Over time, his research interests changed, and he became a researcher of antiquity, especially on the history and culture of the Northern Black Sea and the city of

Byzantium Byzantium () or Byzantion ( grc, Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today. The Greek name ''Byzantion'' and its Latinization ''Byzantium'' cont ...

. He published about 180 papers, of which the most significant focus on

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

and

numismatics Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includ ...

- especially the

coins A coin is a small, flat (usually depending on the country or value), round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to ...

Olbia Olbia (, ; sc, Terranoa; sdn, Tarranoa) is a city and commune of 60,346 inhabitants (May 2018) in the Italian insular province of Sassari in northeastern Sardinia, Italy, in the historical region of Gallura. Called ''Olbia'' in the Roman age, ...

, which Karyshkovskij-Ikar defended in his 1968 doctoral dissertation on ''Coinage and Monetary Circulation in Olbia (6th century B.C. – 4th century A.D.)''. Continuing to work at the Odessa State University, Karyshkovskij-Ikar read various courses of lectures, often the history of

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and

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. Extensive knowledge and erudition enabled him over the years to lecture at the History Department of the six historical courses, six specialized disciplines and to develop a lot of special courses on ancient and medieval history, the course "Introduction to" Numismatics and others. The depth of research of Peter Osipovitch was to a large extent because he had a perfect command of many languages: English, German, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbian, Latin and ancient Greek. Karyshkovskij-Ikar was elected a corresponding member of the

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, the

American Numismatic Society The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is a New York City-based organization dedicated to the study of coins, money, medals, tokens, and related objects. Founded in 1858, it is the only American museum devoted exclusively to their preservation ...

, and was a founding member of the Odessa Archaeological Society. He was honoured by his native

, which gave his name to a street of the city.

Works

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''Coins of Olbia: Essay of Monetary Circulation of the North-western Black Sea Region in Antique Epoch. Киев'', 1988.
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''Coinage and Monetary Circulation in Olbia (6th century B.C. – 4th century A.D''.) Odessa (2003)
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The City of Tyras. A Historical and Archaeological Essay. Одесса: Polis-Press, 1994
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Bibliography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karyshkovsky, Pyotr 1921 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Ukrainian historians Historians of the Balkans Historians of the Middle East Numismatists Odessa Archaeological School Odesa University alumni Odesa University academic personnel Soviet medievalists Ukrainian Byzantinists Ukrainian classical scholars Ukrainian archaeologists Ukrainian medievalists 20th-century archaeologists Scholars of Byzantine history