Rjurik Lonin

Rjurik Petrovič Lonin , Russian Рю́рик Петро́вич Ло́нин , also Ryurik Lonin (born September 22, 1930 in Kaskez , Karelian ASSR , RSFSR , Soviet Union ; † July 17, 2009 in Schjoltosero , Republic of Karelia , Russia ) was a Soviet writer and one of the most important Weps Writer.

Career

Lonin was born as a member of the Wepsen minority on September 22, 1930 in Kaskez, a village in Karelia on Lake Ladoga . He lived for a time in Petrozavodsk and began there in the 1950s to write poetry in his wepsish mother tongue. From 1956 he collected songs, poems and other testimonies of the Wepsi culture and in 1958 he moved to the village Schjoltosero on Lake Ladoga, where in 1967 he founded the Ethnological Museum of Wepsi Culture, which still exists today. This is the only museum that illustrates the history and culture of the Wepsen, and Schjoltosero is still considered the cultural center of the Wepsen today. Lonin worked in his learned profession as a toolmaker and also wrote several books in Russian. In the late 1980s he wrote Iiesusan elu (The Life of Jesus) and translated the Gospel of Mark into Wepsi. This motivated other wepsi writers to translate the entire Bible into wepsis. Lonin's most important work in Wepsisch language appeared in 2000 under the title Minun rahvan folklor (The folklore of my people). Rjurik Lonin died on July 17, 2009 at the age of 78 in Schjoltosero.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daniel Abondolo: The Uralic Languages. P. 100. New York 2006
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ https://wiki.univie.ac.at/display/PraktikumWS11/Die+Wepsen