{{short description|Russian historian and medievalist (1860-1941)}} {{family name hatnote|Mikhailovich|Grevs|lang=Eastern Slavic}} thumb|Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Grevs '''Ivan Mikhailovich Grevs''' ({{langx|ru|Ива́н Миха́йлович Гревс}}; 4 May 1860 – 16 May 1941) was a Russian historian and one of the founders of the Russian school of medievalism that emphasised the influence of the Roman Empire on the social structure of medieval Europe. He was an advocate of the education of women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relstud-hist.spbu.ru/en/articles/en-grevs-ivan-mihajlovic|title=Grevs Ivan|website=relstud-hist.spbu.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Ivan+Mikhailovich+Grevs|title=Ivan Mikhailovich Grevs|website=TheFreeDictionary.com}}</ref> Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://history.spbu.ru/sv-o-kafedre.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922033227/https://history.spbu.ru/sv-o-kafedre.html | archive-date=2019-09-22 | title=О кафедре - Институт истории СПбГУ }}</ref>
He was born into a landholding family who originally came from England during the time of Peter the Great. The surname had been Greaves. He was born on his father's estate near Lutovinov, Biryusinsky district, Voronezh.<ref>{{cite web |title=Гревс Иван Михайлович |url=http://www.kmay.ru/sample_pers.phtml?n=4202 |website=Society of Friends of the Karl May School |accessdate=21 December 2019}}</ref>
In 1873, he moved to Saint Petersburg, where he died in 1941. He is buried at Volkovskoe Lutheran Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ivan Mikhailovich Grevs |url=http://www.encspb.ru/object/2804017435?lc=en |website=Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia |accessdate=21 December 2019}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * ''Essays on the History of Roman Landholding'' (1899) * ''Essays on Florentine Culture'' (1903) * ''Tacitus'' (1946)
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== External links == *[https://persona.rin.ru/eng/view/f/0/23592/grevs-ivan-mikhailovich Grevs Ivan Mikhailovich, photo, biography]
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