Lev Jakowlewitsch Sternberg

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Lev Sternberg

Lew (Chaim Leiba) Jakowlewitsch Sternberg , German Leo Sternberg (born April 21, 1861 in Schytomyr , Russian Empire ; died August 14, 1927 in Duderhof, today Moshaiski near Krasnoye Selo , Russia) was a Russian-Soviet ethnographer who from 1889 to 1897 the Niwchen (Giljaken) , Uilta ("Oroken") and Ainu in Sakhalin and in Siberia for the American Museum of Natural History in New York Cityexplored. He was active in Jewish movements, an avid Marxist, and as a student theorist of terrorism .

Life

Coming from a wealthy Jewish family, Lew Sternberg joined the Narodnaja Wolja at an early age . He was banned from studying natural sciences in Saint Petersburg , and in 1886 he was arrested as a Narodnik (Narodnik) during his final exams at the Odessa Faculty of Law . Sternberg was imprisoned in Odessa for three years and exiled to the north of Sakhalin Island for ten years . He was able to catch up on his doctorate in 1898. On Sakhalin he last lived in Wjachtu, near a settlement of Niwchen, Sternberg learned the language and was allowed to do field research . Pardoned in 1897, he got a job at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography two years later and lectured at the University of Saint Petersburg . After the October Revolution he opened an ethnological museum on Sakhalin.

Publications (selection)

  • The religion of the Gilyaks. In: Archive for Religious Studies. Volume 8, No. 1, 1904, pp. 244-274 and Volume 8, No. 2, 1905, pp. 456-473. Translated from the Russian manuscript by A. von Peters.
  • The Social Organization of the Gilyak. New York 1999. Foreword by Bruce Grant, pp. XXIII – LVI.
  • "Divine Election in Primitive Religion." Congrès International des Américanistes , Compte-Rendu de la XXIe session, Pt. 2 (1924). Gothenburg, 1925; P. 475 ff.
  • Semja i rod. Moscow / Leningrad 1933.

literature

  • Pamjati L'wa Jakowlewitscha Sternberga: In memory of Lev Jakowlewlewitsch Sternberg (in Russian). In: Sbornik Museja Antropologii i Etnografii. Volume 7, 1928, pp. 1-70.
  • I. Winnikow: † Leo Sternberg . In: Anthropos. Volume 23, 1928, pp. 135-140.
  • E. Kagaroff: Leo Sternberg . In: American Anthropologist. Volume 31, 1929, pp. 568-571.
  • Brüllow-Schaskolsky: Leo Sternberg as a sociologist and ethnologist . In: Journal for Völkerpsychologie und Sociologie. Volume 6, 1930, pp. 445-454.
  • Sergei Kan: The Mystery of the Missing Monograph, or Why Shternberg's The Social Organization of the Gilyak Never Appeared among the Jesup Expedition Publications . In: European Review of Native American Studies. Volume 14, No. 2, 2000, pp. 19-38.
  • Ulla Johansen : Leo (Lev Jakovlevic) Sternberg . In: Christian F. Feest , Karl-Heinz Kohl (Hrsg.): Hauptwerke der Ethnologie (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 380). Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38001-3 , pp. 450-454.
  • Sergei Kan: Lev Shternberg. Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist. University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
  • Sternberg, Lev Yakovlevich. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 15, Col. 396

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ulla Johansen: Leo (Lev Jakovlevic) Sternberg. P. 451. On the importance of Sternberg, p. 452f.
personal data
SURNAME Sternberg, Lev Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sternberg, Lev Yakovlevich; Šternberg, Lev Jakovlevič; Shternberg, Lev Iakovlevich; Sternberg, Leo; Shternberg, Lev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhytomyr , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1927
Place of death Duderhof, today Moshaiski , Russia