Alexander Pertsev was born on August 6, 1954 in the city of Nizhny Tagil. Sverdlovsk region. He graduated with a gold medal from the School 32 that was teaching a number of subjects in German. He studied this language from the second grade – from German teachers who were resettled to the Urals before the war from the Volga region, who were the descendants of those Germans who were invited to the Russian service by Peter I and Catherine II. At the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ural State University (1971–1976) he wrote term papers and thesis on the basis of his own translations. His PhD thesis is on German philosophical anthropology. Pertsev spent one year internship at the University of Vienna in 1984. The doctoral dissertation is devoted to the philosophy of the Vienna Circle and "Austro-Marxism".
Author often scientific monographs.
At present, he is a professor at the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg), in the Department of Philosophy. He teaches courses on the history of philosophy of the 19th – 20th centuries in the Department of Philosophy.
The most prominent translations of A. Pertsev
• Jaspers K. Philosophical Autobiography. – Yekaterinburg: Business book; Bishkek: Odyssey, 1997.
• Sloterdijk P. Critique of Cynical Reason. – Yekaterinburg: USU Publishing House, 2001.
• Junger F.G. Games. The key to their meaning. – SPb.: Vladimir Dal, 2012.-336 p.
• Nikish E. The life I dared to. Meetings and events. – SPb.: Vladimir Dal, 2012.-560 p.
• Selected translations from Nietzsche by Professor A. Pertsev – SPb.: Vladimir Dal, 2014.– 240 p.
• Sloterdijk P., Heinrichs G.-Yu. Sun and death. Dialogue research. – SPb.: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House, 2015. – 608 p.
• Spengler O. Reconstruction of the German Reich / translation from German and commentary by A. Pertsev SPb.: Publishing house Vladimir Dal, 2015.-223 p. S. 143-221
• Gvarlini R. Holderlin. Picture of the world and divine inspiration / translation and commentary by APertsev, verse. Per. Purgin S.P SPb.: Nauka, 2015. -498 p. S. 444–486.
• Guardini R. Dante's Divine Comedy: Her Basic Religious and Philosophical Ideas / translation by A. Pertsev. SPb.: Vladimir Dal, 2020. – 498 p.
Joint works of professors O. Matveichev and A. Pertsev:
– O.Poggeler, New Paths with Heidegger (Poggeler, 1992) / Translation to Russian and foreword by A.Pertsev and O. Matveichev. – SPb.: Vladimir Dal. 2019.-640 p.
– R. Pohle – Plato as an educator. Platonic Renaissance and Antimodernism in Germany (1890–1933) [R.Pohle, Platon als Erzieher. Platonrenessance und Antimodernismus in Deutschland (1890–1933). Gottingen, Wandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017] – Translation to Russian and commentary by A.Pertsev and O. Matveichev – currently being prepared for release by the publishing house "Vladimir Dal".