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Canadian historian (1957–2022) In this Dutch name, the surname is Schimmelpenninck van der Oye.
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
BornDutch: 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), 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

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.

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. 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. In 2015 he was elected in the Royal Society of Canada.

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.

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

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye KStJ, FRSC Historian". The Globe and Mail. 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2024 – via Legacy.com.
  2. ^ 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 (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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