Carl Salemann

Carl Gustav Hermann Salemann ( Russian Карл Германович Залеман , Karl Hermanovitch Saleman * December 28, 1849 ^{. Jul} / 9. January 1850 ^greg. In Tallinn , Governorate of Estonia , Russian Empire , † November 30 ^jul. / 13. December 1916 ^greg. in Petrograd ) was a Russian Iranist and university professor .

Life

Salemann's Baltic German parents were the Russian Lieutenant Colonel Hermann Salemann and his wife Jenny Louise Reinholdine, born von Böningh. Salemann attended the cathedral school in Reval from 1859-1867 and then studied oriental studies at the University of St. Petersburg . In 1871 he became a candidate and in 1875 a master's degree in Persian philology . In 1876 he became a private lecturer in Old Persian , Zend- Avesta and Pehlevi .

Salemann became an assistant librarian in 1875 and a librarian at St. Petersburg University in 1879 . He became an adjunct in 1886 , an extraordinary member in 1889 and then a full member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1895 .

In 1890 Salemann became director of the Academy's Asian Museum. The University of Giessen awarded him an honorary doctorate . In 1897 he led a scientific expedition to the western Pamirs with the academician Koržinsky . In 1898 he became a corresponding member of the Estonian Literary Society . In 1908 he was appointed to the Privy Council (3rd class ).

Salemann worked, among other things, on the Russian Turfan manuscripts that Vsevolod Iwanowitsch Roborowski (1856-1910) and Pyotr Kuzmitsch Koslow (1863-1935) had discovered.

Works

Middle Persian Studies. In: Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Vol. 31 April 1887, Col. 418-450 ( online ).
(with Valentin Shukovski) Persian grammar with literature, chrestomathy and glossary . H. Reuther, Berlin 1889. 4th, unchanged edition: Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1947.
Judaeo-persica according to St. Petersburg manuscripts. I. Chudâidat. A Jewish-Bucharian poem. (= Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Series 7, Vol. 42, No. 14). Glasunoff, St. Petersburg 1897.
Manichean Studies. I. The Middle Persian texts in revised transcription, with glossary and grammatical notes (= Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Series 8, Vol. 8, No. 10). Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1908.

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Salemann - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carl Salemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
^ Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Salemann, Karl Germanowitsch. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 27, 2020 (Russian).

personal data
SURNAME	Salemann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Salemann, Carl Gustav Hermann (full name); Saleman, Karl Germanowitsch; Залеман, Карл Германович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian Iranist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 1916
Place of death	Petrograd

[BBLD-1] Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carl Salemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

[2] Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Salemann, Karl Germanowitsch. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 27, 2020 (Russian).