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Vasily Radlov
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German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer (1837-1918)
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Vasily Radlov (1837–1918) was a German-Russian explorer, anthropologist, linguist, and ethnographer. Born in Berlin, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the supervision of Wilhelm Schott. Radlov worked in the fields of Turkology, folkloristics, and archaeology, and served as an employee of the Kunstkamera.
He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Among his notable works are *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*, and *Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte*. His students included Nikolai Katanov, Platon Melioransky, and Sergei Shirokogorov. Radlov died in Saint Petersburg and was buried in the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery.
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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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
- A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations
· 2010 · cited 11,743x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,000x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
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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).
Career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vasily Radlov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.