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Immanuel Velikovsky was born in 1895 to a prosperous Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia ( now in Belarus ).

The son of Shimon ( Simon Yehiel ) Velikovsky ( 1859 – 1937 ) and Beila Grodensky, he learned several languages as a child and was sent away to study at the Medvednikov Gymnasium in Moscow, where he performed well in Russian and mathematics.

He graduated with a gold medal in 1913.

Velikovsky then traveled in Europe and visited Palestine before briefly studying medicine at Montpellier in France and taking premedical courses at the University of Edinburgh.

He returned to Russia before the outbreak of World War I, enrolled in the University of Moscow, and received a medical degree in 1921.