Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
Otto Mänchen-Helfen
Born	(1894-07-26)July 26, 1894 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	January 29, 1969(1969-01-29) (aged 74) Berkeley, California
Scientific career
Fields	Historiography Sinology
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley

Otto John Maenchen-Helfen (

From 1927 to 1930, he worked at the

He was the first non-Russian to travel and report on Tannu Tuva. He obtained permission to travel there and study its inhabitants in 1929.^[1] He later published his experiences in a book, Reise ins asiatische Tuwa (Travels in Asiatic Tuva).

Selected list of works

• Mänchen-Helfen, Otto (1931). Reise ins asiatische Tuwa. Berlin: Der Bücherkreis. Translated into English in 1992 (see below).
• Mänchen-Helfen, Otto (1932). Rußland und der Sozialismus. Von der Arbeitermacht zum Staatskapitalismus. Berlin: Dietz.
• Nicolaevsky, Boris (author), and Maenchen-Helfen, Otto (translator) (1936). Karl Marx: Man and Fighter. (First published 1933 in German. Many English editions; some of them restore the notes, appendices, and bibliography omitted from the first English edition.)
• Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1944-45a). ''Huns and Hsiung-Nu.'' Byzantion, vol. 17, pp. 222–243.
• Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1944-45b). ''The Legend of the Origin of the Huns." Byzantion, vol. 17, pp. 244–251.
• Maenchen-Helfen, O. (1945). "The Yueh-chih Problem Re-examined." Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 65, p. 71–81.
• Maenchen-Helfen, O. (1951). "Manichaeans in Siberia." Semitic and Oriental Studies Presented to William Popper, ed. by Walter J. Fischel. University of California Publications in Semitic Philology, vol. 9. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
• Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1973). The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture. Ed. by Max Knight. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press.
  ISBN 0-520-01596-7
  . (Edited and enlarged in a 1978 German translation; see below.)
• Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1978). Die Welt der Hunnen: Eine Analyse ihrer historischen Dimension. Vienna, Cologne, and Graz: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf.
• Mänchen-Helfen, Otto (1992). Journey to Tuva.; Trans. and annotated by Alan Leighton, with an introduction by Anna Maenchen. Ethnographics Press Monographs Series, edited by Gary Seaman, no. 5. Los Angeles: Univ. of Southern California Ethnographics Press.
  ISBN 1-878986-04-X
  .

Further reading

• "Otto John Maenchen". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 1998. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
• "Maenchen, Otto J.". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 54.
  James T. White & Co.
  1973. p. 550.
• "Maenchen, Otto J.".
  The San Francisco Examiner
  . February 2, 1969. p. B, 8. Retrieved June 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Otto J. Maenchen".
  The San Francisco Examiner
  . February 2, 1969. p. 45. Retrieved June 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Dr. Otto J. Maenchen". Oakland Tribune. February 6, 1969. p. 22. Retrieved June 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.