Philipp Johann von Strahlberg

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Map of Russia from 1725, drawing: Philipp Johann von Strahlberg

Philipp Johann Tabbert , from 1707 von Strahlberg (baptized * October 6, 1677 in Stralsund , † September 2, 1747 in Halmstad ) was a Swedish officer , cartographer , geographer and linguist of German origin.

Life

Philipp Johann Tabbert joined the Swedish army in 1694 , where he was quickly promoted. In 1707 Tabbert was ennobled and took the name of Strahlberg . In the Great Northern War , during the Battle of Poltava in 1709, he was taken prisoner by the Russians and exiled to Tobolsk , where he carried out geographic and anthropological research on Siberia from 1711 to 1721 . After the Peace of Nystad , he returned to Stockholm in 1722 and published his studies in a book in 1730. The publication met with great interest and was translated into English , French and Spanish .

This book included new maps of all of Russia . He also redefined the border between Europe and Asia . It was supposed to run along the Ural Mountains and its tributary Obschtschi Syrt , then along the Volga and finally the lower Don , the latter serving as a border river since ancient times.

Strahlberg's work also deals extensively with the language and writing of the Tatars , Yakuts , Chuvashes , Crimean Tatars , Uzbeks , Bashkurts , Kyrgyz , Turkmentatars and Mongols . He precisely recorded Turkic inscriptions on tombstones on the banks of the Yenisei .

Von Strahlberg was soon forgotten until the playwright August Strindberg became interested in him.

Works

  • Preliminary report of a work from the Great Tartarey and the Kingdom of Siberia, ready for printing. with an appendix from Greater Russia . Schneider, Stockholm 1726, loc.gov
  • The northern and eastern parts of Europe and Asia, so far as the whole Russian Empire with Siberia and the great Tatars are included . Published by the author, Stockholm 1730, digitized at uni-muenster.de
  • Judit Papp (ed.): The north and east part of Europe and Asia . Attila József, University of Szeged 1975

See also

  • on the demarcation of Europe-Asia: Eurasia

literature

  • Philipp Johann von Strahlberg . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 541 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Ulla Ehrensvärd: The map of Siberia by Philipp Johann von Strahlberg (1730) and its significance for the modern map of northern Asia . In: Cartographica Helvetica. Fachzeitschrift für Kartengeschichte 44, pp. 17–33. Full text: https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=chl-001:2011:43::183#128
  • Gunnar Jarring: The fate of the Central Asian scientific legacy of Philipp Johann Strahlberg . In: Central Asiatic Journal 21, pp. 224-228.

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personal data
SURNAME Strahlberg, Philipp Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tabbert, Philipp Johann; Strahlberg, Philip Johan von; Stralenberg, Philipp Johann; Strahlberg, Filip Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish officer and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH baptized: Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1747
Place of death Halmstad