Yevgeny Bertels

Yevgeny Eduardovich Bertels (Russian: Евге́ний Эдуа́рдович Берте́льс (13 (25) December 1890, Saint Petersburg — 7 October 1957, Moscow) was a Russian orientalist (Iranist and Turkologist), professor of the Leningrad State University, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), correspondent member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences (1944), Turkmen Academy of Sciences (1951), Arab Academy of Sciences in Damascus (1955). After World War II Bertels lived and worked in Moscow. One of the authors of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. His works on Sufism are regarded as classics in the studies of Sufism in Russia.