Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels, also written as Berthels, (Russian: Евге́ний Эдуа́рдович Берте́льс | Romanization: Evgeniĭ Ėduardovich Bertel's (25 December 1890, Saint Petersburg — 7 October 1957, Moscow) was a Soviet-Russian orientalist, Iranologist and Turkologist, born in a family of Russian free professionals of Danish ancestry. 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. After a short-lived interest in entomology, Bertels went into legal studies, graduating from the St. Petersburg Imperial University (1914). But his genuin