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Vasily Radlov
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German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer (1837-1918)
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vasily
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Occupation
- ethnographer
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Employer
- Kunstkamera
- Languages spoken
- German
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Wilhelm Schott
- Doctoral student
- Bernhard Petri
- Field of work
- archaeology
- Image
- Radlof V.V..jpg
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- date of birth
- 1837-01-17
- date of death
- 1918-05-12
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- place of burial
- Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
- student
- Sergei Shirokogorov
- Commons category
- Vasily Radlov
- name in native language
- Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff
- writing language
- German
- Commons Creator page
- Vasily Radlov
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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
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