Wassili Pawlowitsch Wassiljew

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Wassili Pawlowitsch Wassiljew ( Russian Василий Павлович Васильев ; born February 20, 1818 in Nizhny Novgorod ; † April 27, 1900 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian sinologist and Buddhologist . Wilhelm Grube was one of his students.

biography

In 1837 Vasilyev graduated from the Department of Oriental Languages ​​at the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Kazan . In 1849 he went to Beijing for the Russian Orthodox Legation , where he learned Sanskrit , Chinese , Mongolian , Tibetan and Manchurian . In 1851 he became a professor at the University of Kazan. In 1855 he became a professor at the University of Petersburg. In 1866 Vasilyev became a corresponding member and in 1886 a full member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Meaning and works

Vasilyev was a scholar with a wide range of interests, who made significant contributions to Sinology ( history , religious studies , geography , language and literature of China ). His most important works:

  • Буддизм, его догматы, история и литература ( The Buddhism , its dogmas , history and literature ; 1857 to 1869). This work is a translation of the Samayabhedopacakra by Vasumitra. It was groundbreaking for Buddhology and this Russian version was also translated into German (St. Petersburg, Eggers 1860) and from German into French ( Le Bouddisme, ses dogmes, son histoire et sa littérature ; Paris 1865).
  • История и древности восточной части Средней Азии от Х до XIII века ( History and Antiquities in Eastern Central Asia from the 10th to the 13th Century ; 1857).
  • The Mohammedan Movement in China (Petersb. 1867, Russian)
  • Китайская хрестоматия ( Chinese Chrestomacy , 1868).
  • Религия Востока: конфуцианство, буддизм и даосизм ( The Religions of the East: Confucianism , Buddhism and Daoism ; 1873).
  • Анализ китайских иероглифов ( Analysis of Chinese Characters; 1866–1884 ). In this book, Wassiljew gives an outline of Chinese phonetics , morphology and writing .
  • Очерк истории китайской литературы ( Outline of the History of Chinese Literature ; 1880).
  • Графическая система китайских иероглифов. Опыт первого китайско-русского словаря ( The graphic system of Chinese characters. Attempt of the first Chinese-Russian dictionary ; 1867).
  • Opening up China. Cultural-historical and economic-political essays on the history of East Asia (Leipzig, Weicher 1909).

literature

  • З.И. Горбачева, Н.Н. Пертов, Г.Ф. Смыкалов: Русский китаевед академик Василий Павлович Васильев (1818–1900). In: Очерки по истории русского востоковедения , Volume 2 (Moscow, Nauka 1965), pp. 234-340.
  • Е.В. Мальцева: В.П. Васильев как исследователь китайской литературы. In: Материалы по истории и филолоигии Центральной Азии , No. 4. (Ulan-Ude, 1970), pp. 9-11.
  • Р.Е. Пубаев: Академик В.П.Васильев - первый исследователь тибетской исторической литературы в России. In: Востоковедные исследования в Бурятии (Novosibirsk, 1981.), pp. 62–78.
  • Ю.А. Сорокин: Академик В.П.Васильев как маньчжуровед. In: Восточная филология. Характерологические исследования (Moscow, Nauka 1971), pp. 213-219.
  • Васильев Василий Павлович, In: Большая советская энциклопедия ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia ; 3rd edition, Moscow 1969–1978).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Other translations in Western languages:
    Samuel Beal: The eighteen schools of Buddhism (1880);
    M. Walleser: The sects of old Buddhism (Heidelberg 1927);
    Paul Demiéville: L'origine des sectes bouddhiques d'aprés Paramārtha (1932).
personal data
SURNAME Wassiljew, Wassili Pawlowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasil'ev, Vasilij Pavlovič; Vassilief, Vasilij Paol; Wassiljew, Vasilij Paol; Wassiljew, W .; Wassiljev, WP; Wassiljew, Wassilij; Васильев, Василий Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Nizhny Novgorod
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1900
Place of death St. Petersburg