2 July] 1859 – 30 December 1954) was a Russian, Latvian and Soviet historian of classical antiquity, and the medieval and modern periods.

[2] Wipper's works received the privilege of translation into English for foreign readership.

[2] The History of Greece of the Classic Epoch (1916) was a personal favorite of Joseph Stalin.

[2] Until his death Wipper supported the Christ myth theory.

[3] The first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia characterized him as "the most talented representative in historical science of the Russian petty bourgeois intelligentsia".