David Hendrick Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, FRSC, KStJ (/shɪməljpænjɪnək/; 1957–2022),[1] was a Canadian historian who was a professor of the history of Russia at Brock University.
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.
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.
degree with the thesis Ex Oriente Lux: Ideologies of Empire and Russia’s Far East, 1895–1904.
[4] 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.