Ivan Pavlovich Minajew

Ivan Pawlowitsch Minajew ( Russian Иван Павлович Ivan Pavlovič Minaev , also Minayeff, born in 1840 ; died in 1890 ) was a Russian orientalist and linguist who is considered the first Russian Indologist .

His students included Sergei Oldenburg , Fyodor Shcherbatskoi and Dmitri Kudrjawskij ( Russian Дмитрий Николаевич Кудрявский ).

As a student of the sinologist Vasily Wassiljew at the University of Saint Petersburg , he became interested in literature of the Pali language and went abroad to compile a catalog of Pali manuscripts from the British Museum in London and the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (not published) . His Russian Pali grammar (1872) was quickly translated into French (1874) and English (1882).

His most important work is Buddism. Issledowanija i materialy ( Buddhism: Studies and Materials ), published in St. Petersburg in 1887.

Minajew was among the first European orientalists to recognize that the study of Buddhism and Pali were essential to understanding the history and society of ancient India.

He was a member of the Russian Geographical Society and made trips to India and Burma in the years 1874–1875, 1880 and 1885–1886. His travel reports and diaries from India and Burma were published in 1958 ( Travels in and diaries of India & Burma ), translated into English.

Grave: Ivan Pawlowitsch Minajew 1840-1890

Fonts (selection)

• Buddism. Issledowanija i materialy ( Russian Буддизм. Исследования и материалы Buddizm. Issledovanija i materialy ) St. Petersburg 1887.
  • Recherches sur le bouddhisme. E. Leroux, Paris 1894, Annales du Musée Guimet: Bibliothèque d'études 5 (translated by Raoul-Henri Assier de Pompignan (1862–1947)); Foreword: Émile Senart ( archive.org ). With a short biography by Sergei Oldenburg : A la mémoire de Ivan Pavlovitch Minayeff. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
• Pali grammar , Russian (1872) - translations into French (1874) and English (1882):
  • Grammaire palie: esquisse d'une phonétique et d'une morphologie de la langue palie / par J. Minayef. Traduite du russe by Stanislas Guyard . Paris: Leroux, 1874.
  • Pali grammar: a phonetic and morphological sketch of the Pāli language with an introductory essay on its form and character / by J. Minayeff. Transl. from Russian into French by Stanislas Guyard. Rendered into Engl. From the French and rearranged with some modifications and additions for the use of English students by Chas. Geo. Adams. - [sl]: [sn], 1882. (Očerk fonetiki i morfologii jazyka Pāli English)
• Travels in and diaries of India & Burma. Translated by Hirendranath Sanyal. Calcutta, Debi Prasad Mukhopadhyaya, Eastern Trading Co., [1958]
• Catalog of Pali manuscripts from the British Museum and Bibliothèque nationale (unpublished).

literature

• Minajew (Ivan Pavlovich) . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 19 [37]: Мекенен – Мифу-Баня. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1896, p. 331–332 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF ).
• Minaev, Ivan P. (1840-1890)
• Минаев, Иван Павлович. In: Great Soviet Encyclopedia . Volume 39: Мерави – Момоты. 1. A. Sp. 425 ( full text [Wikisource] dlib.rsl.ru PDF).

Web links

• Bibliography: prajnaquest.fr (PDF)
• Literature by and about Iwan Pawlowitsch Minajew in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Russian Indologist's folk tales released

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Russian Indologist's folk tales released - rbth.com (“ was among the first European scholars to feel that the study of Buddhism and Pali was vital for the proper understanding of ancient Indian history and society ”)
2. ^ Hermann Oldenberg : On the history of the Indian caste system. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society . Volume 51, 1897, p. 267 ff. ( Menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de ).