Georgi Nikolayevich Prokofiev

Georgi Nikolayevich Prokofiev ( Russian Георгий Николаевич Прокофьев ; born September 9 ^{. Jul} / 21st September  1897 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 29. January 1942 in Leningrad ) was a Russian linguist , ethnographer and university teachers .

Life

Prokofiev graduated from the ethnographic faculty of the Geographic Institute, which then became the ethnographic department of the geographic faculty of Leningrad University . His teachers were Lew Jakowlewitsch Sternberg and Wladimir Germanowitsch Bogoras .

In 1921 Prokofiev was sent to the Nenets by the trade expedition to the north to conduct research . He not only collected ethnographic material, but drew also landscapes , genre scenes and portraits . Prokofiev's watercolors were also exhibited at the expedition results exhibition in January 1922 , and Prokofiev gave two lectures on the Samoyed and the ob and ice of the Kara Sea .

1925 Prokofiev was the committee of the North to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to study the economic and cultural situation of ketene and Nenets in the Tazovsky - Tundra sent. There he worked for three years together with his wife Yekaterina Dmitrijewna, also a graduate of the ethnographic department, as director and teacher of the new boarding school in Janow Stan for Selkupen . He learned the Selkupic language and mastered it so perfectly that he was able to write a Selkupic grammar and clarify the ethnogenesis of the Samoyed peoples . Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was interested in Prokofiev's teaching method and met with him. In 1929 he became a real member of the Geographical Society of the USSR .

1929–1931 Prokofiev worked on behalf of the Committee for the North again in the Tasovsky Tundra. On the way there, he spent two months on the Bolsemelskaya Tundra on Yugor Street to study the Nenets language . He headed a district center at the Samoyed cultural center in Chosseda-Chard (32 km north of Charuta ), studied local history and took part in the training of teachers.

In 1933 Prokofiev made a long trip to Taimyr Autonomous County , where he collected extensive material on the Nganasan and Enzishn languages . Then he wrote textbooks and grammars of the Samoyed languages . A Nenets primer in Latin script came from him , which was then followed by the primer in Russian script . Between his stays in the north and from autumn 1933 he taught at the Institute for the Peoples of the North (INS), at the Pedagogical Heart Institute in Leningrad and at the Institute for the Study of the Peoples of the USSR . He headed the linguistics section of the INS Research Association and was a senior fellow on the New Alphabet Committee . In 1938 he became a senior worker and head of the Siberian Cabinet of the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow . To this end, he held lectures at the ethnographic department of the philological faculty of the Leningrad University on the ethnography of the peoples of Siberia and the Samoyedic languages from 1938 until his death during the Leningrad blockade .

Prokofiev and his wife had three children.

Prokofiev's watercolors and drawings are in the archive of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Хомич Л. В .: Георгий Николаевич Прокофьев - исследователь языков и этнографии самодийских народийских народийских народийюов (к столетдие соя) . In: Курьер Петровской Кунсткамеры. Вып. 8-9 . 1999, p. 274–277 ( web1.kunstkamera.ru accessed on November 28, 2018).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Библиотека сибирского краеведения: Прокофьев Георгий Николаевич (accessed November 28, 2018).
3. ↑ ^{a b} О. А. Казакевич: Архив Г. Н. и Е. Д. Прокофьевых: самодийские языковые материалы . In: Finnish-Ugric messages . tape 32/33 , 2010, pp. 257–278 ( lcl.srcc.msu.ru accessed November 29, 2018 [PDF]).