Johannes Reinhold Aspelin

Johannes Reinhold Aspelin

John Reinhold Aspelin ( Russian Йоганн Рейнгольд Аспелин ; Swedish Johan Reinhold Aspelin , * July 20 ^{. Jul} / 1. August  1842 ^greg. In Messukylä , † May 16th ^{. Jul} / 29. May  1915 ^{. Greg} in Helsinki ) was a Finnish archaeologist .

Life

He was a son of the pastor Henrik Reinhold Aspelin (1806-1869) and Gustava Eriksdotter Snellman (1816-1880). His marriage to Anna Sofie Elisabet Nielsen (1850–1930) resulted in two sons and a daughter. The art historian Eliel Aspelin (1847–1917) was his brother.

Aspelin spent his childhood and youth in Ostrobothnia , where he also completed his schooling up to the final exam . In 1862 he enrolled at Helsingfors University . His study and later research focus was the early history of Finland as well as that of the Finno-Ugric peoples . After lengthy study trips to museums in Russia, especially the Baltic States , Scandinavia and Germany , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

Before that, he worked in the university's historical and ethnographic museum and, since 1867, in the State Archives in Helsinki. In 1867 he took part in the excavations in Kökar in Åland as an assistant to Karl August Bomansson . From 1878 to 1885 he was Associate Professor of Nordic Archeology at the University of Helsinki. He was then appointed the first Finnish state archaeologist, a position Aspelin filled until his death in 1915.

He founded Finska fornminnesförening in 1870 and was its chairman until 1885. He was also one of the main initiators of the founding of the Finnish National Museum . He founded the critical source-based gender research in Finland and was from 1878 to 1882 the first titled knight house - genealogist . Aspelin was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Literature, History and Antiquities and, since 1892, an honorary member of the Estonian Scholarly Society .

Publications (selection)

• Kokoilemia muinaistutkinnon alalta. 1, Etelä-Pohjanmaalta , 1871
• Suomalais-ugrilaisen muinaistutkinnon alkeita , 1875
• Muinaisjäännöksiä Suomen suvun asumus-aloilta , 1877–1884
• De la civilization prehistorique des peuple et de leur permiens Commerce avec l'oriental: notice archeologique , 1878
• Antiquités du Nord Finno-Ougrien. V. L'age du fer. Antiquités des Provinces Baltiques , Helsingfors, St. Petersbourg, Paris, 1884
• La rosomonorum gens et le ruotsi etude d'histoire et d'archeologie: respectueusement dediee au Congres Archeologique d'Odessa le 27 (15) aout 1884 , 1884
• Suomen asukkaat pakanuuden aikana , 1885
• Types de peuples de l'ancienne Asie centrale: souventir de l'Ienissei dedie a la societe imperiale d'archeologie de Moscou , 1890
• Tschudische inscriptions on the upper Yenisei , Zschr. F. Ethol. XX. 1890
• The steppe graves in the Minusinsk district on the Yenisei. Studies in the field of inscription stones , Finnish-Ugric research XII. 1912

see also

• Ancient Altaic monuments of art: Letters and images from JR Aspelin's travels in Siberia and Mongolia 1887–1889 , published by Hjalmar Appelgren-Kivalo , 1931

literature

• Johannes Reinhold Aspelin . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : Armatoler – Bergsund . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 219-220 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).