Robert Bleichsteiner

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Robert Bleichsteiner (born January 6, 1891 in Vienna ; † April 10, 1954 there ) was an Austrian ethnologist .

Life

From 1901 to 1909 Bleichsteiner attended the Realgymnasium in Vienna- Mariahilf , the district from which he came and where he grew up. He then studied history, geography , ethnology and oriental languages at the University of Vienna . In 1914 he obtained his doctorate . He became librarian at the Research Institute for East and East Germany, of which he became a full member in 1917. In 1922, Bleichsteiner completed his habilitation at the University of Caucasian Languages. As early as 1921 he was working as a volunteer in the ethnographic department of the Natural History Museum, today's Museum of Ethnology , where he became a scientific official in 1926 and was responsible for the Asia department. In 1945 he became director of the museum and in 1947 associate professor. After his death, Bleichsteiner was buried in the Stadlau cemetery . In 1957 Bleichsteinerstraße in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him. Since 1939 he was married to Alice Lenk, b. Kratzenstein (born January 24, 1890 in Magdeburg, † February 3, 1981 in Purkersdorf).

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As a scientist, Bleichsteiner dealt with the ethnology of Central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus as well as with the languages ​​of this area. The focus of his work was Georgia and the Georgian language. Bleichsteiner also translated Georgian literature into German.

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  • Iranian equivalents to Frau Holle and Baba Jaga ; in: Mitra - monthly for comparative myth research. First vintage. 65-71. Vienna 1914
  • Report on my stay in the Austro-Hungarian POW camp in Eger (May 15 to June 25, 1917); in: Reports of the Research Institute for the East and the Orient. Vol. 1. 81-86. Vienna 1917
  • Caucasian research in the Austro-Hungarian POW camp in Eger , in: Reports of the Research Institute for the East and the Orient. Vol. 1. 86-103. Vienna 1917
  • The Alans ; in: Reports of the Research Institute for the East and the Orient. Vol. 2.4-16. Vienna 1918
  • A Georgian ballad by Amiran ; in: Reports of the Research Institute for the East and the Orient. Vol. 2, 148-172. Vienna 1918
  • Overview of Caucasian peoples and languages ; in: Reports of the Research Institute for the East and the Orient. Vol. 2. 66-85. Vienna 1918
  • Caucasian Research Part 1. Georgian and Mingrelian texts . Vienna 1919
  • To protochattic ; in: Reports of the Research Institute for the East and the Orient. Vol. 3, 102-106. Vienna 1923
  • Alabi, a Georgian measure of length ; in: Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna. Vol. 54. Reports from the meetings 9-10. Vienna 1924
  • The Subaraeans of the Ancient Orient in the light of Japhetite research - Festschrift PM Schmidt . Vienna 1928
  • The yellow church. Mysteries of Buddhist Monasteries in India, Tibet, Mongolia and China . Belf, Vienna 1936
  • The Caucasian language group ; in: Anthropos 32. St. Gabriel, Mödling 1937
  • Daniel Conkhadze: The castle of Surami . Siebenberg-Verlag, Vienna 1940 (translation: Robert Bleichsteiner)
  • The man in the panther skin ; in Asia reports. Issue 5. 16–24. Vienna 1940
  • Dictionary of Today's Mongolian Language. With a brief outline of the grammar and selected language samples . Siebenberg-Verlag, Vienna 1941 (with Walther Heissig )
  • Hero songs of the Daghestan peoples ; in: Asia Reports. Issue 13/14. 9-22. Vienna 1942
  • The discoverer of the Bering Strait ; in: The bridge. Vol. 1. Issue 12. 14-19. Vienna 1946
  • The great Georgian poet Nikolos Baratashvili ; in: The bridge. Vol. 1. Issue 6/7. 56-59. Vienna 1946
  • New Georgian poets . Amandus Edition, Vienna 1947
  • The literature of Georgia ; in: The bridge. Vol. 3. Issue 10/11. 69-71. Vienna 1948
  • The Peoples of the Soviet Union - An Overview ; in: The bridge. Vol. 3. Issue 1. 5–10. Vienna 1948
  • The Georgian people. With subsequent translation of "Autumn morning in Kakheti" by Simon Tschikowani ; in: The bridge. Vol. 4. Issue 9. 13-16. Vienna 1949
  • Films of the Soviet East ; in: The bridge. Vol. 4. Issue 4. 47-52. Vienna 1949
  • Georgia yesterday and today. A trip behind the Caucasus . Globus-Verlag, Vienna 1950
  • Four days in Soviet Asia ; in: The bridge. Vol. 5. Issue 5, 9-11. Vienna 1950
  • Perchten figures in Central Asia ; in: Archives for Ethnology. Vol. 8, 58-75. Vienna 1953
  • The leaf deities and St. Barbara in the popular belief of the Georgians . In: Leopold Schmidt (ed.): Culture and people. Contributions to folklore from Austria, Bavaria and Switzerland. Festschrift for Gustav Gugitz on his 80th birthday (= publications by the Austrian Museum of Folklore; Vol. 5). Self-published by the Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 1954, pp. 63–83.
  • Hugo Adolf Bernatzik (ed.): The new great ethnology. Peoples and cultures of the earth in words and pictures Vol. 2 Asia. Australia . Herkul, Frankfurt am Main 1954
  • Hoofbeats in the sky . Regensburg 1990

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SURNAME Bleichsteiner, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1954
Place of death Vienna