The governors representing the Tsar in eighteenth-century Siberia had a key role in opening up the Russian East to commerce and troops, but very much also to science. One of the experts called in to ...explore both the geographic and ethnic nature of the vast empire was Julius von Stubendorff (1811–1878). In the process, von Stubendorff took detailed notes of the languages and customs he encountered. This article introduces four letters which shed light on the complexities of the era.
In the article the author deals with the years the famous Turkologist and historian Ahmet Zeki Velidi Togan (1890–1970), who is known for his great edition of the 10th-century Arabic travel account ...of Ibn Faḍlān was working and teaching at Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn (1935–1938). Various documents relating to events from this period are reproduced in the article (including his appointment to the Oriental Seminar at the university, his appointment as a member of the Finno-Ugric Society in Helsinki, his appointment as an honorary professor, a research stay in Turkey, his leave of absence to carry out a lectureship at the Georg August University in Göttingen, and finally his defence in response to accusations regarding his “political reliability”, which are not known in detail. This defence was made both by Paul Kahle and by himself in the form of an account of his political activities in the years 1917–1929, the full text of which is appended and which was later also used by Togan himself in his autobiography.
Von einer lamutischen (ėwenischen) Fassung der Fabel
als Beispiel ausgehend, befasst sich dieser Beitrag mit äsopischen Fabeln, die als Übersetzungen auch in den altajischen und sogenannten ...paläosibirischen Sprachen überliefert sind. Es erweist sich, dass es sich im Falle der Beispielfabel um eine jüngere Übernahme auf Grundlage der literarischen Bearbeitung des Stoffes durch Vsevolod Michajlovič Garšin (1855–1888) handelt. Der Beitrag setzt sich mit der Frage nach Garšins Vorlage auseinander und befasst sich zudem mit anderen Ausprägungen des Motivs von Vögeln, die ein flugunfähiges Tier durch die Lüfte tragen (und dann absichtlich, versehentlich oder durch dessen Verschulden zu Boden fallen lassen), in Zentral- und Nordasien (etwa im Kacchapa Jātaka und im Pañcatantra).
Hartmut Walravens and Agnes Stache-Weiske 2021. Der Linguist Anton Schiefner (1817-1879) und sein Netzwerk. Briefe an Emil Schlagintweit, Leo Reinisch, Franz v. Miklosich, Vatroslav Jagić, K. S. ...Veselovskij, Eduard Pabst, Vilhelm Thomsen und andere. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 908. Bd.; Beiträge zur Kulturund Geistesgeschichte Asiens 105. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 937 pp. ISBN: 978-3-7001-8397-6.
In his contribution, the author discusses the Yakut forms in the travelogue of the physician, botanist and geologist Johann Redowsky (1.1.1774–8.2.1807). The travelogue was recorded on the occasion ...of Count Yurii Aleksandrovich Golovkin’s diplomatic mission to China. Redowsky accompanied Golovkin representing the Academy of Sciences. The travel diary documents Redovsky’s journey from Irkutsk to Kamchatka in 1806–1807 and contains much ethnographic information about Tungus and Yakuts. Redowsky’s material is interesting because it contains lexemes that are not found elsewhere, or at least not in the form noted in the diary.
