Boris Alexandrovich Turajew
Boris Alexandrovich Turajew ( Russian Борис Александрович Тураев , English transliteration: Turaev or Turayev; born July 24 . Jul / 5. August 1868 . Greg in navahrudak ; † 23. July 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Russian Orientalist and Egyptologist.
Life
Turajew studied Egyptology in Saint Petersburg (graduated in 1891) and later with Gaston Maspero in Paris and Adolf Erman in Berlin , worked in the museums of both capitals and at the British Museum in London. From 1896 he lectured at the University of Saint Petersburg, where he became a full professor in 1911. He organized the purchase of the Egyptian collection of Vladimir Semjonowitsch Golenishchev for the Moscow Pushkin Museum , which he then worked on scientifically. With his student Wassili Wassiljewitsch Struwe , he edited a translation of the Moscow papyrus in 1930. In 1911 his main work "History of the Ancient Near East" (Russian) appeared in two volumes. It covers the area from Iran and Central Asia to Carthage. In 1920 his book on Egyptian literature was published in Moscow, and in 1898 a book on the Egyptian god Thoth (Russian). Natalja Dawidowna Flittner and Miliza Edwinowna Matje were his students.
Turayev had been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1918 . He bequeathed his own Egyptian collection to the Hermitage .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turajew, Boris Alexandrovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nawahradak |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1920 |
| Place of death | Petrograd |