Not in English, sorry. He was the author of some kind of paper to defend that Russia was part of Europe, not Asia. Edit: Oh, I'd read too fast. The history of

Not in English, sorry. He was the author of some kind of paper to defend that Russia was part of Europe, not Asia. Edit: Oh, I'd read too fast. The history of the name is in the article for Europe that mnl linked above. This guy didn't invent the name that, as mnl noted, was used since... forever. He just happened to define what we call Europe today. In classical Greece it was used to mean the lands west and north of Greece. They didn't know of, let's say, Scandinavia.