Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov

Pyotr Kozlov ( Russian Пётр Кузьмич Козлов , scientific. Transliteration Pëtr Kuz'mič Kozlov ; * 3. October 1863 in Duchowschtschina at Smolensk ; † 26. September 1935 in Petrodvorets in Leningrad ) was a Russian scientist and explorer who studies Nikolai Mikhailovich Prschewalskis in Tibet and Mongolia completed.

Live and act

Against the wishes of his parents, who had planned a military career for Kozlow, he accompanied Prschewalski and his successors Pewtsow and Roborowsky on their expeditions in Asia. In 1894, on their expedition to the Nan Shan , Koslow and Roborowski discovered a short-tailed dwarf hamster, now known as the Roborowski dwarf hamster . In 1895 Koslow took over the leadership of an expedition for the first time instead of the ailing Roborowsky.

1899–1901 Koslow explored the rivers of the Yellow River , the Jangtses and the Mekong .

During an expedition to the Gobi Desert between 1907 and 1909 , he discovered the remains of Khara-Khoto , a legendary city founded by the Western Xia , which was a rich trading center at the time of Marco Polo . In the following period Kozlov devoted himself to the excavations of Khara-Khotos, he brought more than 2,000 books in Tangut language to St. Petersburg .

Koslow's last expedition to Tibet and Mongolia (1923–1926) resulted in the discovery of several Xiongnu tombs, and Koslow also found textiles from Bactria that were over 2,000 years old .

Koslow was friends with the German Central Asian traveler Wilhelm Filchner , who arranged that Koslow's book Mongolei, Amdo und die Tote Stadt Chara-Choto translated into German and published in 1925 by the Berlin publishing house Neufeld & Henius . Sven Hedin and Wilhelm Filchner wrote the foreword. He was married to Yelisaveta Vladimirovna Kozlova .

Works

Mongolia, Amdo and the dead city Chara-Choto , Berlin: Neufeld & Henius, 1925.

literature

Herbert Wotte : Among horsemen and ruins: The journeys of the Central Asian researcher Pyotr Koslow. Leipzig, VEB FA Brockhaus, 1971.

Individual evidence

Web links

orientalstudies.ru
Russian Explorations in Chinese Central Asia (IDP British Library)
Literature by and about Pjotr Kusmitsch Koslow in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Kozlov, Pyotr Kuzmich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Козло́в, Пётр Кузьми́ч (Russian); Kozlov, Pëtr Kuz'mič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian explorer and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Duchovshchina
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1935
Place of death	Peterhof near Saint Petersburg

[1] René Grousset: The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia , New Brunswick (New Jersey) 1970, p. 39. Can be borrowed online here.

[2] Alexandre I. Andreyev / Tatyana Yusupova: Petr Kuzmich Kozlov (1863–1935) , in: Alexandre I. Andreyev / Mikhail Baskhanov / Tatyana Yusupova: The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks , Leiden 2018, Pp. 212-254 (here: p. 244).