Vladimir Jochelson

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Vladimir Jochelson

Vladimir Ilyich Jochelson (

indigenous peoples of the Russian North
.

Biography

Jochelson came from a wealthy, religious

Petro-Pavlovsk fortress in St. Petersburg, and in 1887 was sentenced by order of the czar to exile for ten years in northern Siberia, in the province of Yakutsk.[3][4]

Tungus Laika
, taken by Vladimir Jochelson during the Jesup Expedition

In Siberia Jochelson made a special study of the language, manners, and folk-lore of the aboriginal inhabitants, especially that of the

Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1894–97), which had been sent to that part of Siberia at the expense of a wealthy Russian promoter of art and science named Sibiryakov. On that expedition Jochelson discovered among the natives in the outlying regions two Yukaghir dialects then considered as extinct. The Imperial Geographical Society published his discoveries in the field of ethnology, while the linguistic reports of his investigation were acquired for publication by the Imperial Academy of Science.[3]

When the

Sakha (Yakut), accompanied by his wife Dina Brodskaya, a qualified doctor, who took care of all the anthropometric and medical work, and most of the photography.[5] The expedition was intended to create a comprehensive record of the peoples being studied, and a very wide range of artefacts and material objects were collected, as well as the final ethnographies and written field-notes of the participants.[6] Jochelson returned with the expedition to the United States, studying there the material which he and his wife, who accompanied him in the last journey, had collected.[3]

Yukaghir man with his laika taken by Vladimir Jochelson during the Jesup North Pacific Expedition in 1901

In 1909–11 Jochelson led the Riaboushinsky Expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society to

Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.[4][7]

Jochelson contributed extensively to scientific journals in Russian, German and English. In English his best-known full works are his volumes The Koryaks (1908) and The Yukaghir and Yukaghirized Tungus (1926) for the Jesup Expedition; his handbook Peoples of Asiatic Russia (1928) for the American Museum of Natural History; and Archeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands (1925) and Archeological Investigations in Kamchatka (1928), both for the Carnegie Institution. His final work focussed on refining his work on the

Kamchadal people.[4][7]

Works

Further reading

  • Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall (2004), The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
    ISBN 0-8122-1878-7
    .

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herman Rosenthal and Peter Wiernik (1901–1906). "Jochelson, Waldemar". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

  1. ^ Also: Waldemar Jochelson, Vladimir I. Iochel'son, Vladimir Ilič Iochelʹson
  2. ISBN 978-0-8147-4213-6
    . Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d Jochelson, Waldemar, Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906.
  4. ^
    doi:10.1525/aa.1930.32.2.02a00240
    , pp. 376–77.
  5. ^ Biographies of the Individuals Associated with the American Museum of Natural History's Jesup North Pacific Expedition Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, American Museum of Natural History. Accessed (via Google cache) 5 July 2011
  6. ^ Asian Ethnographic Collection at AMNH, American Museum of Natural History. Accessed (via Google cache) 5 July 2011
  7. ^ a b Waldemar Jochelson papers, 1909-1937, New York Public Library. Accessed 5 July 2011
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