Feliks Kon
Feliks Jakowlewitsch Kon or Felix Kohn ( Russian Феликс Яковлевич Кон ; born May 30, 1864 in Warsaw , Russian Empire ; died July 28, 1941 in Moscow ) was a Polish ethnographer and communist .
Life
Kon became a member of the Polish revolutionary proletariat party in 1882 . In the mid-1880s, for political reasons, he was sent to Siberia by the tsarist administration, where he researched the Yakuts . He had been on the staff of the Minussinsk Museum since 1894 and took part in an expedition of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences to Manchuria . He was in exile from 1906 to 1917. In 1918 he joined the Bolsheviks . From the 1920s he worked for the Comintern , from 1924 to 1935 in its International Control Commission.
family
literature
- MA Czaplicka : Aboriginal Siberia, a study in social anthropology. With a preface by RR Marett. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1914
- Hans Findeisen : Siberian shamanism and magic . Augsburg 1953 ( Treatises and essays from the Institute for Human and Human Studies , No. 3)
Web links
- Literature by and about Feliks Kon in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ MA Czaplicka : Aboriginal Siberia, a study in social anthropology. With a preface by RR Marett. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1914, p. 327.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kon, Feliks |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kon, Feliks Yakovlevich; Kohn, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish ethnographer and communist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1941 |
| Place of death | Moscow |