Vasily Radlov

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vasilievich and the family name is Radlov.
Vasily Radlov
Petrograd, Soviet Union
(now Saint Petersburg, Russia
)
OccupationTurkologist

Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (

Petrograd) was a German-Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of Turkic peoples. According to Turkologist Johan Vandewalle, Radlov knew all of the Turkic languages and dialects as well as German, French, Russian, Greek, Latin, Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew.[citation needed
]

Career

Working as a schoolteacher in

St. Petersburg from 1884 to 1894.[citation needed] One of the works he published was a Kyrgyz version of the epic Er Töshtük[1]

Radlov assisted Grigory Potanin on his glossary of Salar language, Western Yugur language, and Eastern Yugur language in Potanin's 1893 Russian language book The Tangut-Tibetan Borderlands of China and Central Mongolia.[2]

During the

Panturkism. A perceived connection with the long-dead Radlov was treated as incriminating evidence against Orientalists and Turkologists, some of whom were executed, including Alexander Samoylovich
in 1938.

Publications

Further reading

  • Laut, Jens Peter, Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 21 (2003), S. 96–97
  • Temir, Ahmet (1955). Leben und Schaffen von Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (1837–1918): Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Türkologie, Oriens 8 (1), 51–93

References

  1. ISBN 9780271044453
    .
  2. ^ "Poppe: REMARKS ON THE SALAR LANGUAGE" (PDF). 16 March 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2012.

External links

Preceded by Director of the
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography

1894–1918 		Succeeded by
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