Sergei Efimovich Malov

Sergei Jefimowitsch Malow ( Russian Сергей Ефимович Малов ; * 4th January ^July / 16 January  1880 ^greg. In Kazan ; †  6 September 1957 in Leningrad ) was a Russian and Soviet linguist , orientalist and Turkologist .

biography

Malov studied at the Kazan Theological Academy (Казанская духовная академия) and oriental languages ​​- Arabic, Persian and Turkish - at the University of Petersburg .

After that, Malov worked as a librarian at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences . On behalf of the Foreign Ministry, he researched the languages ​​and customs of the Turkic peoples of China (Uyghurs, Salars, Sarten and Kyrgyz).

In 1917 Malov became a professor at Kazan University and head of the numismatic collection. He researched the Volga Tatars. In 1921, at the Tashkent Conference, he was a supporter of the idea of ​​calling a modern Turkic people in Xinjiang "Uighurs".

In 1922 Malov returned to Petrograd and became a lecturer at the University of Petrograd. He taught and researched at several scientific institutions in the Soviet Union, including the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He taught various Turkic languages ​​and Turkish philology.

In 1929 Malow published his discovery of the Talas script, a variant of the Old Turkish runes.

During the Second World War Malow was a professor at the Kirov University and at the Kazakh Pedagogical University in Alma-Ata .

meaning

Malow was considered an excellent expert on the modern and old Turkic languages ​​of the Soviet Union and its neighboring states. He published around 170 monographs and articles on the languages, history and customs of Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Siberia and the Volga region. Several Turkic languages ​​were scientifically described by him for the first time. He worked on the creation of written languages, alphabets and spelling rules for several previously unscripted peoples of the Soviet Union. He made important contributions to the deciphering of ancient Turkish runic scripts.

Web links

• Малов Сергей Ефимович . Russian National Library.