Alexander Vasilyevich Igumnov

Alexander Vasilyevich Igumnov ( Russian Александр Васильевич Игумнов * 1761 in Kudarinskaja Fortress at Troizkossawsk ; † October 24 ^jul. / 5. November  1834 ^greg. In Irkutsk ) was a Russian Mongolist , translator and Buddhism watchers .

Life

Igumnows father colleges Assessor (8th rank class ) and served in Troizkossawsk, Beijing and Trans-Baikal and served as an interpreter for Mongolian and Manchu . The grandfather was the overseer of the state trade caravans to Urga . Igumnow grew up among Mongols and attended the translator garrison school at the border chancellery in Selenginsk on the Selenga from 1771–1777 ( Novosselenginsk since 1840, near today's Gussinoosjorsk and about 200 km above Selenginsk, founded in 1961 ). He then served as a translator in the border chancellery in Troitskossawsk.

In 1781 and 1782 Igumnov accompanied the Russian Spiritual Mission to Beijing . After that he lived in Moscow in the house of Nikita Akinfijewitsch Demidows and studied literature on the Mongols. In 1791 he traveled to Irkutsk and resolved a border conflict with China , whereupon he was promoted from college registrar (14th grade) to college secretary (10th grade). Because of his critical thinking, he had difficulties on the job and had to change jobs several times. He worked in a subordinate position 1793–1795 in Nerchinsk and 1795–1798 at the lower court in Irkutsk. He knew the customs and habits of the local population well. In 1797 he collected more than half of the back taxes in the Irkutsk Governorate . In 1798 he organized the purchase of wool from the Buryats for the Irkutsk cloth factory. 1799–1804 he directed the settlement in Transbaikalia. In 1805 he was transferred to Count Yuri Alexandrowitsch Golowkin , who had just been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to China.

In 1809 Igumnov resigned from the service and settled in Verkhneudinsk , where he taught Buryat children. In 1819 he became a member of the Werchneudinsk Commission of Inquiry and in 1822 a member of the Court of Honor. He later traveled to Irkutsk, where he was appointed the authorized representative of the Governor General of Eastern Siberia for the resolution of conflicts with the Buryats and Mongols. In Irkutsk he worked as a translator in particular for the Governor General of Eastern Siberia and created a Mongolian dictionary, the manuscript of which he bequeathed to the Irkutsk grammar school. He translated books of the Holy Scriptures into Mongolian. He founded a Mongolian school in Irkutsk and then a Mongolian class in the Irkutsk Spiritual Seminary. He created the first Mongolian-Russian dictionary. The new curator Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Mussin-Pushkin of the University of Kazan sent the scientist Józef Kowalewski , who was supposed to learn Mongolian, to Igumnov in Irkutsk. Igumnow then accompanied Kowalewski on his study trips to Transbaikalia. Igumnow sold his library to Paul Ludwig Schilling von Cannstatt and left behind many manuscripts on the Mongols and Buddhism .

Igumnov was buried in the Jerusalem cemetery in Irkutsk.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} IrkipediaRu: Игумнов, Александр Васильевич (accessed August 19, 2018).
2. ↑ Игумнов (Александр Васильевич, 1761–1834) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XIIa, 1894, p. 794 ( Wikisource [accessed August 19, 2018]).
3. ↑ Игумнов, Александр Васильевич . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 8 , 1897, p. 62-63 ( Wikisource [accessed August 19, 2018]).
4. ↑ Пучковский Л. С .: Очерки по истории рус. востоковедения (Александр Васильевич Игумнов) . Moscow 1960.
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