OBOLENSKY, DIMITRY

OBOLENSKY, DIMITRY, Byzantinist, Slavic historian, educator (1 April 1918– ). Educated at the Lycee Pasteur in Paris and Trinity College, Cambridge, he earned an M.A., Ph.D., and D.Litt. At Trinity College he was a fellow (1942–48), faculty assistant lecturer (1944), lecturer (1945), and university lecturer in Slavonic studies (1946). He was reader in Russian and Balkan medieval history at the University of Oxford (1949–61), professor of Russian and Balkan history (1961–85), and Fellow of Christ Church (1950–85). He is currently emeritus professor at Oxford University. He has taught extensively in United States academic institutions. His publications include Byzantium and the Slavs (1971) and The Byzantine Commonwealth (1971). He was knighted in 1984.