Alexander Vasilyevich Popov

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Alexander Wassiljewitsch Popow ( Russian Александр Васильевич Попов ; * 1808 in Tsaritsyn , † 1865 in Kazan ) was a Russian orientalist , Mongolist and university teacher .

Life

Popov attended the district school, and then the high school in Astrakhan , where he learned Persian and Tatar . In 1822 he switched to high school in Kazan , where he graduated in 1825. This was followed by studies at the University of Kazan , which he completed in 1828 as a real student in the field of Eastern Siberia .

When the new curator Michail Nikolajewitsch Mussin-Pushkin decided to set up a professorship for Mongolian Studies at the University of Kazan, the scientists Józef Kowalewski and Popow were commissioned to carry out four years of research in Siberia in 1828 . Popov then lived among Buryats and studied the Mongolian and Tibetan languages . In 1833 he returned to Kazan. After taking a special exam in Mongolian literature at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences , he became an adjunct in Mongolian at the University of Kazan and a Mongolian teacher at the Kazan grammar school. In 1835 he became an associate professor at the Department of Mongolian Language at Kazan University. In 1836 his Mongolian Reader was published in two parts, for which he received the Order of St. Stanislaus, 4th Class. In 1837 he published his Mongolian arithmetic for Kalmyks and Buryats.

In 1838 Popov traveled to the Kalmyk steppe to study the differences between the Mongolian and Kalmuck languages . In 1839 his book about the Kalmyks on the Volga was published . From 1844 he taught Mongolian and Kalmuck at the Kazan Spiritual Academy. In 1846 he became a full professor. In 1849 he received the Demidow Prize for the grammar of the Kalmyk language published in 1847 . In 1853 he retired.

In 1855 Popov was appointed as a full professor to the chair of Mongolian-Kalmuck literature at the University of St. Petersburg . In 1859 he was appointed to the Real Council of State (4th class ).

Popov later returned to Kazan University. In 1860 he became inspector of the schools of Western Siberia . On behalf of the Holy Synod , he examined the translations of the Russian worship books into Mongolian.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Попов, Александр Васильевич (профессор) . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 14 , 1910, pp. 512 ( Wikisource [accessed August 18, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Попов (Александр Васильевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXIVa, 1898, p. 557 ( Wikisource [accessed August 18, 2018]).
  3. ↑ AI Popow .: Краткие замечания о приволжских калмыках . тип. Имп. Акад. наук, St. Petersburg 1839 ( rsl.ru [accessed August 18, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Alexander Popov: Грамматика калмыцкого языка . Kazan 1847 ( rsl.ru [accessed August 18, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Popov, Alexander Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Попов, Александр Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian orientalist, Mongolist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsaritsyn
DATE OF DEATH 1865
Place of death Kazan