Galssan Gombojew

Galssan Gombojew ( Russian Галсан Гомбоев * 1822 in the Oblast Transbaikalien ; † June 23 ^{. Jul} / 5. July  1863 ^greg. In Lachta in the northwest of St. Petersburg ) was a Buryat - Russian Mongolist , translator and university professor .

Life

Gomboev's father was an elder in the 5th hundredth of the Buryat Ataganov Cossack regiment . Gombojew was trained in a Buddhist Dazan from 1822 . In 1834 he became a Gezul- Lama and then a Chambo-Lama. He studied Tibetan , Mongolian and Tibetan medicine .

In 1841 Gombojew was sent to the 1st grammar school in Kazan together with Galssan Nikitujew , where he quickly learned Russian . In 1842 he was brought from the University of Kazan as a Mongolian teacher to the chair headed by Józef Kowalewski . In 1844 he received the gold medal for his achievements in high school.

In 1847 Gombojew traveled to Kalmykia . In 1850 he was employed as a Mongolian teacher by the Kazan Spiritual Academy. There he and the head of the anti-Buddhist department Alexei Alexandrovich Bobrovnikov collected materials for a Mongolian- Kalmuck reader.

1856 Gombojew went with the University of St. Petersburg laid Faculty of Oriental Languages at the University of Kazan to St. Petersburg . His work on Mongolian literature was printed by the Imperial Archaeological Society. His essay on the Mongolian customs and traditions described by Johannes de Plano Carpini appeared there in 1857 , after a German translation had appeared in the Bulletin Aus den Mélanges Asiatiques of the Imperial Academy of Sciences as early as 1856 , as did sixty Buriatian puzzles . Gombojew's main work was the translation of the Mongolian chronicle Altan-Tobtschi , published in 1858 , which members of the Spiritual Mission had brought with them from Beijing and which Isaak Jakob Schmidt had taken note of. For his biography of the Djungarian lama Saja-Pandita, who lived at the beginning of the 17th century , he became a member of the Imperial Archaeological Society. He also translated from Kalmuck and Russian educational texts into Mongolian and Kalmuck. In 1859 he became a lecturer at the University of St. Petersburg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Гомбоев (Галсан) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape IX , 1893, p. 148 ( Wikisource [accessed August 20, 2018]).
2. ↑ Улымжиев Д. Б .: Бурятский учёный-востоковед Галсан Гомбоев (1818–1863). (К 175-летию со дня рождения) . Ulan-Ude 1993.
3. ↑ Биографика СПбГУ: Гомбоев Галсан (1822–1863) (accessed August 20, 2018).