Ivan Shpitsberg

Ivan Anatolievich Shpitsberg (Russian: Иван Анатольевич Шпицберг; 1880 — 1933), was a Russian and Soviet lawyer, journalist, writer, translator, organizer, and head of the scientific society and publishing house Atheist (Russian: "Атеист") (1921), and editor of the eponymous magazine.[1]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Anatolievich and the family name is Shpitsberg.

Career

Shpitsberg was born into a noble family.[2] He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg State University in 1906. On 1 September 1906 he became an assistant to a sworn attorney. On 9 June 1912 he became a sworn attorney in St. Petersburg. After February 1917, he worked as an official of the Holy Synod on divorce cases.[3] According to information on 13 March 1917, he was an "employee of the commissariat of the 4 sub-district of the Foundry District" in Petrograd. From January to June 1918, he was "chairman of the Marriage Department of the Foundry District Council" of the Workers' Council and soldiers' deputies, also in Petrograd. Since 1918, he became an anti-religious lecturer-propagandist, and, at the same time, a comrade of the People's Commissar in Petrograd. He joined the ranks of the RCP (b), according to various sources, in May to July 1919.

Shpitsberg also took part in the publication of the magazine "Revolution and Church". On 17 May 1919 he began working in the VIII department of the People's Commissariat of Justice: first as an expert, and then (no later than May 1920) in its body on the most important cases. From 1 December 1920 to 31 May 1921 he served as the legal adviser of the Cheka. At the same time, he was an authorized officer of the Seventh Division of the Secret Department of the Cheka. Shpitsberg investigated led church processes in 1918-1920.[4] He was Dismissed from the Cheka for defamation on 10 June 1921.[5]

In 1921, he became the organizer and head of the scientific society and publishing house Atheist (Russian: "Атеист"). Under the guidance of Shpitsberg, a library of atheistic literature of foreign authors was created, and the books were translated by P. Holbach, A. Drews, J. Robertson, G. Daumer, J. Fraser, L. Taxil, and others.[6]

He died of heart disease.[7]

Works

Books

As the author of the preface to the book

Translations
  • Даенсон, Эдуард.[8] О боге и черте / Пер. с франц. И. А. Шпицберга ; Э. Даенсон ; Статья Ивана Анатольевича Шпицберга. Религиозная язва. - Петроград : [б. и.], 1919 (тип. Н. Я. Дурнякина). - [2], XXX, 100, III с.; 22 см.
    • Даенсон, Эдуард. О боге и черте : (Памфлет) / Эдуард Даэнсон ; Пер. с франц. и прим. И. А. Шпицберга. - Москва : Красная новь, 1923. - IV, 160 с. : ил.; 24 см.
    • Э. Даэнсон. О Боге и черте. (Памфлет). Перевод с французского и примечания И. А. Шпицберга. (с 32 рисунками). Москва. Издательство "Атеист". 1923 г. - V, 160 с.
  • Робертсон, Джон. Евангельские мифы / Джон Робертсон ; перевод с нем. под ред. и с преисл. И. А. Шпицберга. - Москва : Атеист, 1923. - XIV, 224 с. : ил.
  • Олар, Альфонс. Христианство и Французская революция. 1789-1802 / Альфонс Олар ; Пер. с франц. под ред. [и с предисл.] И. Шпицберга. - Москва : Атеист, 1925. - 98, [1] с.; 23 см
  • Эйльдерман, Генрих. Миф и религия : (первобытная мифология в материалистическом освещении) : сказки австралийских туземцев / Генрих Эйльдерман ; пер. с нем. под ред. И. Шпицберга. - Москва : Атеист, 1926. - 72, [2] с. : ил.; 26 см.
  • Даумер, Георг Фридрих. Тайны древнего христианства / Г. Даумер ; Пер. с немецк. под ред. И. Шпицберга. - [Москва] : науч. о-во Атеист, [1927] ("Мосполиграф" типо-цинкография "Мысль печатника"). - 176 с. : ил.; 26х18 см

As an editor

References
  1. Atheistic Dictionary / Шпицберг
  2. Журнал «Наука и религия». 1967, № 7, / с. 21
  3. Кривошеева Н.А. "О закрытии Московского епархиального совета" / Вестник ПСТГУ II: История. История Русской Православной Церкви 2006. Вып. 2 (19). / С. 197-203
  4. М. Горький. "Полное собрание сочинений. Письма в 24 томах". / Том 13 – письма июнь 1919 - 1921 / С. 209, С. 551
  5. М. Ю. Крапивин. "Дискуссия о создании «советской» Православной церкви в руководящих кругах большевистской партии и советского государства (1919–1921 гг.) "/ С. 296
  6. Atheistic Dictionary / Шпицберг
  7. Журнал «Наука и религия». 1967, № 7, / с. 21
  8. Даенсон, Эдуард (1882-1929)

Notes
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