Shoqan Uälichanuly

Shoqan Uälichanuly (left) with Dostoyevsky in Semipalatinsk (1858)

Schoqan Schyngghyssuly Uälichanuly ( Kazakh Шоқан Шыңғысұлы Уәлиханұлы , Russian Чокан Чингисович Валиханов , Tschokan Tschingissowitsch Walichanow * 1835 , † 1865 ), also: Qokan Valikhanov or Shoqan Walikhanov etc., was a Kazakh-Russian scientist, historian, ethnographer, geographer and literary scholar. He is a descendant of Ablai (Khan) .

His main work is considered to be his work on the Russians in Central Asia ( The Russians in Central Asia ), which has also been translated into English. He also dealt with the Shamanism in Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz Manas - epic .

His Collected Works were published by the Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic Institute (Institut Istorii, Archeologii i Ėtnografii Imeni Č. Č. Valichanova) of the Academy of Science of the Kazakh Socialist Soviet Republic (Akademija Nauk Kazachskoj SSR) in Alma-Ata , named after him .

Publications (selection)

• The Russians in Central Asia: their occupation of the Kirghiz steppe and the line of the Syr-Daria: their political relations with Khiva, Bokhara, and Kokan: also descriptions of Chinese Turkestan and Dzungaria ; by Capt. Valikhanof, M. Veniukof and [others] (1865) ( digitized version )

literature

• Didar Kassymova, Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Ustina Markus: Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan . 2012 ( partial online view )
• Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 , edited by Carl Cavanagh. 2008 ( partial online view )
• Alfrid K. Bustanov: Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations . 2014 ( partial online view )

Web links

• The Expeditions of Chokan Valikhanov: Discover Kazakhstan

Schoqan Uälichanuly (alternative names of the lemma)
Čokan Č.Valichanov; Šoķan Šyņǵysūly Uälihanov; Šoķan Š.Uälihanov; Šoķan Šyņǵysūly Uälihanov; Č. Č.Valichanov; Čokan Valichanov; Čokan Čingisovič Valichanov; Chokan Ch.Valikhanov; Chokan Chingisovich Valikhanov; S. S Uälihanov; Chokan Chingisovich Valikhanov