Yuri Nikolajewitsch Roerich

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Yuri Nikolajewitsch Roerich

Juri Nikolajewitsch Roerich (also George Nicholas Roerich , Georges de Roerich ; Russian Юрий Николаевич Рёрих [ ˈjurʲɪj nʲɪkəˈɫajɪvʲɪʧʲ ˈrʲɔrʲɪx ]; born  August 16, 1902 in Okulowka ; † May 21, 1960 in Moscow ) was a Soviet scientist on East Asia .

biography

Yuri Nikolajewitsch Roerich was the eldest son of Nikolai Konstantinowitsch Roerich ( Nicholas Roerich ) and Jelena Iwanowna Roerich ( Helena Roerich , née Schaposchnikowa, 1879–1955). From 1912 to 1916 he attended the K.-I.-Maj-Gymnasium in Saint Petersburg . He spent 1917 to 1918 in Finland . 1919-1920 he studied in London Indo-Iranian , 1922, he studied at Harvard Indology , 1923 Asian Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris . He worked with Paul Pelliot , Jacques Bacot and Sylvain Lévi and did research on Central Asia , Tibet and Mongolia and learned Chinese and Persian (with IF Minorski). From 1924 to 1925 he researched Sikkim , Kashmir and other regions of South Asia, at the same time he learned Sanskrit and Tibetan .

From 1925-1928 Yuri Nikolaevich Roerich participated in the expeditions of his father to Central Asia - Ladakh , Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang ( Republic of China ) - in part, he founded the Himalayan Research Institute Urusvati in Darjeeling , which is a branch of the New York Roerich Museum is and in whose work his younger brother Svetoslav Roerich took part. From 1931 to 1932 he worked in Western Tibet, from 1934 to 1935 in Mongolia, Manchuria and other parts of China. In 1935 he went to India. From 1949 to 1957, Yuri Nikolajewitsch Roerich worked at the University of Kalimpong in West Bengal , where he a. a. Taught Chinese and Tibetan.

In August 1957, Yuri Nikolayevich Roerich returned to the Soviet Union and became head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious History of India at the Institute for Asian Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow, where he worked until his death two and a half years later.

Works

  • Tibetan Paintings (Paris, P. Geuthner 1925; new edition: Delhi, Gian 1985); Тибетская живопись (1925; from the English by A. L. Barkowaja); New edition 2001, ISBN 5-86988-026-2 .
  • Владения архатов (1929).
  • Современная тибетская фонетика (1928).
  • Звѣриный стиль у кочевников Сѣверного Тибета / The animal style among the Nomad tribes of Northern Tibet (Prague, Seminarium Kondakovianum 1930)
  • Каталог тибетской коллекции (1930).
  • Путешествие в сокровенную Азию (1931); Trails to Inmost Asia . Five Years of Exploration with the Roerichs' Central Asian Expedition (New Haven / London 1931); Ajia no wokuchi eア ジ ア の 奥 地 へ (from the English by Fujitsuka Masamichi 藤 塚 正道 and Suzuki Mihoku 鈴木 美 保 子; Tokyo, Renhō Shuppan 連 合 出版 1985), ISBN 4-89772-041-9 .
  • Sur les pistes de l'Asie centrale (Paris, P. Geuthner 1933); По тропам Срединной Азии (1933)
  • Dialects of Tibet. The Tibetan dialect of Lahul (New York, Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute of Roerich Museum, 1933).
  • Аланские дружины в эпоху монголов . In: Осетия (Paris 1933).
  • (Ed. And transl.); The Blue Annals (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 1949-1953); see also: Blue Annals .
  • Le parler de l'Amdo. Étude d'un dialecte archaïque du Tibet (Rome, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente 1958)
  • (Ed. And transl .): Chag Lo-tsā-ba. Biography of Dharmasvamin (Chang lo tsa-ba Chos-rje-dpal), a Tibetan monk pilgrim (Patna, K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute 1959); Удивительное жизнеописание Чаг лоцзавы, составленное Джуба Чойдаром .
  • Тибетский язык (Moscow, 1961).
  • Е. Семека etc. (ed.): Избранные труды (Moscow, Nauka 1967).
  • (with Lobsang Phuntshok Lhalungpa): Textbook of colloquial Tibetan. Dialect of Central Tibet (New Delhi, Manjuśrī ²1972).
  • Тибетско-русско-английский словарь с санскритскими параллелями (Moscow, Наука 1983–1987), ISBN 5-02-017585-4 .
  • Тибет и центральная Азия. Статьи, лекции, переводы (Samara, Agni 1999), ISBN 5-89850-012-X .
  • Письма (Moscow 2002); Vol. 1: ISBN 5-86988-104-8 ; Vol. 2: ISBN 5-86988-123-4 .
  • Буддизм и культурное единство Азии (Moscow 2002).
  • История Средней Азии (Moscow 2004), vol. 1.

literature

  • Воспоминания о Ю. Н. Рерихе (Novosibirsk, СибРО 1994).
  • Ю. Н. Рерих: материалы юбилейной конференции (Moscow, МЦР 1994).
  • Е. М. Величко-Мухина, М. Ф. Дроздова-Черноволенко: Воспоминания о Ю. Н. Рерихе (Moscow, Дельфис 2002).
  • Рихард Рудзитис: Встречи с Юрием Рерихом (Minsk, Лотаць 2002).

credentials

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personal data
SURNAME Rjorich, Yuri Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roerich, George Nicholas; Roerich, Georges de; Рерих, Юрий Николаевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet Asian scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Okulowka , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1960
Place of death Moscow