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Vasily Radlov

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Vasily Radlov

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Also known as Wilhelm Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff, Vasily Vasilevich Radlov, Vasily Vasilievich Radlov

German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer (1837-1918)

Person · Open Library

Born
17 January 1837
Died
12 May 1918
Works
27

Top works

  • Die alttürkischen Inschriften der Mongolei
  • Les portes de feutre
  • South-Siberian Oral Literature (Uralic & Altaic)
  • Die Sprachen der türkischen Stämme Süd-Sibiriens und der dsungarischen Steppe
  • Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Russia
Active from
1985-08-02

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Key facts

Born
( 1837-01-17 ) January 17, 1837, Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
Died
May 12, 1918 (1918-05-12) (aged 81), Petrograd , Russian SFSR
Occupation
Turkologist

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Encyclopedic overview

Vasily Vasilievich Radlov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ра́длов), born Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1837 – 12 May 1918) was a German and Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of Turkic peoples. He was the first to publish the Orhon inscriptions (though he did not succeed in deciphering them).

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vasily Radlov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.