Dmitri Alexandrovich Klementz

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Dmitri Alexandrowitsch Klementz ( Russian Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Кле́менц ; born December 14, 1847 in Gorjainowo, Samara Governorate ; † January 8, 1914 ) was a Russian Central Asian researcher, anthropologist, archaeologist and director of the ethnographic museum of today's Alexander III Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ( Art Camera ) in St. Petersburg .

Life

In 1898 he went to Turfan on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg and brought manuscripts and fragments of wall paintings with him.

Klementz traveled with his wife, a botanist, and carried out archaeological digs along the northern route of the Silk Road. He also made significant discoveries around Karakhodscha (Chinese: Gaochang ), Astana ( Asitana ) and Yar-Khoto ( Jiaohe 交 河 ), in the vicinity of Turfan , including manuscripts in the languages Old Uighur , Chinese and Sanskrit .

In the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics by James Hastings wrote the article about the Buryat .

He was a member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society , the Moscow Anthropological Society and the Imperial Archaeological Society .

The “successes” of the German Turfan expeditions under Albert Grünwedel and Albert von Le Coq could not have been achieved without his preparatory work.

Works

  • Turfan and its antiquities . In: News of the expedition to Turfan equipped by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in 1898. Issue 1. St. Petersburg 1899

literature

  • Peter Hopkirk : The Silk Road. In search of lost treasure in Chinese Central Asia. Reinbek near Hamburg: rororo 1990, ISBN 3-499-18564-4 .
  • Albert Grünwedel : Report on archaeological work in Idikutschari and the surrounding area in the winter of 1902-1903. Munich 1906 (Abhandl. Of the Royal Bavarian Akad. D. Wiss., Philos.-philol. Kl., 24th vol., 1st department (memoranda, 80th vol.)) ( Online )
  • Jack A. Dabbs: History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan. The Hague: Mouton, 1963.

Name variants

Dimitri Klementz, Dimitri Aleksandrovich Klementz

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personal data
SURNAME Klementz, Dmitri Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Клеменц, Дмитрий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Central Asian researcher, anthropologist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Samara Governorate
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1914