Gerard Clauson
Sir Gerard Leslie Makins Clauson (28 April 1891 – 1 May 1974) was an English civil servant, businessman, and Orientalist best known for his studies of the Turkic languages. He was born in Malta.
The eldest son of Major
battle of Gallipoli but spent the majority of his effort in signals intelligence, concerned with German and Ottoman
army codes.
These were the years in which the great
Tumshuqese). Clauson actively engaged in unraveling their philologies, as well as Chinese Buddhist texts in the Tibetan script
.
Clauson also worked on the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London,[1]
and was published as a facsimile edition in 2016.
In 1919 he began work in the
British Civil Service, which was to culminate in serving as the Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Office, 1940–1951, in which capacity he chaired the International Wheat Conference, 1947, and International Rubber Conference, 1951. After his mandatory retirement at age 60, he switched to a business career and in time served as chairman of Pirelli
, 1960–1969.
Archives
A partially filled notebook containing Sir Gerard Clauson's Notes on Kashgari's Divan lugat at-Turk and other cognate subjects is held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.[2]
Selected works
- 1962, 2002. Turkish and Mongolian Studies. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Rpt. as Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-415-29772-9.
- 1964. "The Future of Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Studies" Asia Major (New Series) volume 11, part 1: 54–77.
- 1972. An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- 2016. Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary: A Facsimile Edition. With an introduction by ISBN 978-1-78201-167-5.
References
- ^ Grinstead, Eric (1972). Analysis of the Tangut Script. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. p. 38.
- ^ "UoB Calmview5: Search results". calmview.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- C. Edmund Bosworth, "Introduction" to Clauson's Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics
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