Jakob Hummel

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Jakob Hummel ( Russian Якоб Иванович Гуммель , according to German transcription Jakob Iwanowitsch Gummel ; * 1893 in Helenendorf , Russian Empire ; † 1946 in the Akmolinsk area , Kazakh SSR , USSR ) was a Soviet archaeologist and folklorist of German descent. He was the founder of the archaeological sciences in Azerbaijan .

Life

Jakob Hummel was born in the community of Helenendorf - at that time the most important colony of German settlers in the Caucasus . The Hummel family, of German origin, was one of the founding members of the colony. In the 1880s, the Hummels built a wine warehouse in Helenendorf and a winery called Concordia in the town of Gjandscha . In 1895 the family set up their first cognac factory in the Caucasus. In 1900 the trading house of the Hummel brothers (Russian: Торговый дом братьев Гуммель) opened, which did business with international companies. The family's wine has won several awards.

Jakob Hummel studied natural science at a teachers' institute in Tblissi . From 1921 he was active as a teacher in his community and at the same time founded a local museum for local history. From 1923 to 1924, Hummel undertook a study trip to Germany on behalf of the Republican Ministry of Education . From 1930 he was scientifically concerned with the history of ancient Azerbaijan and carried out extensive excavations for it, for example near the river Gəncəçay (Russian река Гянджачай or reka Gjandschatschai).

A first arrest was made in 1933. Jakob Hummel was released after six months of pre-trial detention. In 1936 he was elected a corresponding member of the Institute for Caucasus Studies of the Azerbaijani Society for Scientific Research and Studies .

In 1941, as part of the Stalinist purges , Hummel was forcibly relocated to Kazakhstan along with other Caucasian Germans .

Jakob Hummel is the author of several monographs in both Russian and German.

Fonts

  • The German in Transcaucasia . Langensalza, Beltz 1927.
  • Heimat booklet of the Germans in Transcaucasia . German state publisher "Nemgosisdat", Prokrowsk 1928.
  • The local history museum in Helenendorf in Azerbaijan. Zentral-Völker-Verlag, Moscow 1929.
  • Pogrebal'nyj kurgan (No 1) okolo Elenendorfa Azerbajdžan SSR: Elenendorfskoe kraevedčeskoe obščestvo. Baku 1931.
  • Археологическая разведка на Килик-даге. Известия Азербайджанского Филиала АН СССР, 1938, 17-2.
  • Краеведческий музей Ханларского района. Baku 1939. pp. 3-19.
  • Археологические очерки. Baku 1940
  • Памятники древности в окрестностях Килик-дага. Известия Азербайджанского Филиала АН СССР, 1941, № 2, 27–41.
  • Большой курган no. 2, около Ханлара Азерб. ССР (рукопись). Azərbaycan SSR EA TİEA, inv. No. 636, 15.
  • Раскопки к юго-западу от Ханлара в 1941г. In: ВДИ 4, 1992, pp. 5-15

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personal data
SURNAME Hummel, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гуммель, Якоб Иванович; Gummel, Jakob Iwanowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet archaeologist and folklorist of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Helenendorf , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1946
Place of death Akmolinsk Region , Kazakh SSR , USSR