1291) Michael Postan

Sir Michael Moissey Postan (1899 – 1981). British historian. He was also known as Munia Postan.
He was born to a Jewish family in Bendery, in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, and studied at the St Vladimir University in Kiev, leaving Russia in 1919 after the October Revolution and settling in the UK. He held positions at University College London and at the London School of Economics, before being appointed Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, from 1937. He was known as an economic historian of medieval Europe.
He married first the historian Eileen Power. After she died, he married Lady Cynthia Rosalie Keppel, daughter of the 9th Earl of Albemarle, with whom he had two sons.

- "He was a ginger-haired British medievalist..."  https://books.google.de/books…

- "Looking somewhat like a red-haired Neanderthal survivor and speaking through a heavy Russian accent..."  https://www.ehs.org.uk/…/51af7692-4e54-4d15-8359-333b0a1fc6…

- "A small, red-headed man with a charismatic presence..."  https://books.google.de/books…