Alexander Gavrilowitsch Endyukovsky

Alexander Gawrilowitsch Endjukowski ( Russian Александр Гаврилович Эндюковский ; † 1938 ) was a Russian linguist and specialist in Mordovian and Sami in the Soviet Union.

Life and work

The Kildinsamian alphabet from 1933

Alexander Endjukowski originally studied Mordovian and published his first work on topics of Mordovian linguistics and literature .

After defending his dissertation in the early 1930s, he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of the Peoples of the North in Leningrad , where he taught Sami students and undertook research trips to the Kola Peninsula . Together with Sachari Tschernjakow , Endyukovsky played the leading role in language planning and the creation of a written language for the Sami languages in the Soviet Union .

Endyukovsky fell victim to the Stalin terror at the end of the 1930s . As the alleged leader of an armed Sami conspiracy against Soviet power, he was executed in 1938. Fifteen other defendants suffered the same fate, including Samen from Lowozero and the researcher Vasily Alymow from Murmansk .

Fonts (selection)

Mordovian

1930. К вопросу о русских заимствованиях в мордовском языке. Учёные записки Саратовского Университета 8: 3, pp. 55–112
1932. Сюжет Тристана и Исольды в мордовском фольклоре // Тристан и Исольда. Ленинград, pp. 227–260

Kildin Sami

1934. Краткий отчет о результатах командировки в Мурманский округ по изучению кильдинского диалеакта. Materialy po razvitiju jazykov i pis'mennosti narodov Severa v Murmanskom okruge , ed. von Lujsk, Konstantin KS 11-12.
1934. Kniga logkəm guejka . Leningrad: OGIZ Antmus par̦n literatura
1937. Saam̦ bukvar̦r̦. Jazyki i pissmennosti narodow Sewera , ed. by MG Anwelt. Moskwa: Utschpedgi's digitized version in the Fenno-Ugrica collection

1937. Saamski (loparski) jasyk. Jazyki i pissmennost samoedskich i finno-ugorskich narodow , ed. by GN Prokofew. Moskva / Leningrad: Utschpedgis. 125-162

1937. Saamski jasyk. Literaturnaja entsiklopedija w 11 tomach . Moskwa, p. 469 Electronic version (in Russian)

1937. Saamskaya literatura. Literaturnaja entsiklopedija w 11 tomach . Moskwa, p. 468 Electronic version (in Russian)

Translation into Kildinese

Savel̦jev, L. 1934. Koht jemne mil̦t vьjet Vɘgɘ sam̦ kile A. Enḑukovskij. Leningrad: OGIZ Antmus par̦n literatura

literature

Leif Rantala: Saami studies: Russian / USSR . In: Ulla-Maija Kulonen (ed.): The Saami: a cultural encyclopaedia . Helsinki 2005, p. 365-370 ( Electronic version [accessed January 9, 2013]).
Unni K. Utvik: Cola seeds. Fra tsarens undersåtter til sovjetiske borgere . Bergen 1985 ( Master's thesis (in Norwegian) on the university's document server [PDF; accessed May 20, 2014]).

Web links

Endyukovsky in the "Kolski Sever" lexicon (in Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Article on "The Sami Conspiracy" (in Russian)

personal data
SURNAME	Endyukovsky, Alexander Gavrilowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ẹndjukovskij, Aleksandr Gavrilovič; Эндюковский, Александр Гаврилович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet Finnougrist
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century
DATE OF DEATH	1938

[1] . Article on "The Sami Conspiracy" (in Russian)