Wladimir Germanowitsch Bogoras

Wladimir Germanowitsch Bogoras

Vladimir Bogoraz ( Russian Владимир Германович Богораз ; born April 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. April  1865 ^greg. In Ovruch ; † 10. May 1936 ), pseudonym as a poet and storyteller: Tan, was a Russian revolutionary and ethnologist. He made important contributions to the ethnography of the Chukchi and other peoples of northeast Siberia .

Life

Bogoras and his wife Sofia in 1901 during the Jesup North Pacific Expedition in Novo-Mariinsk

Bogoras came to Saint Petersburg in 1880, he joined the folk folk during his studies , was imprisoned and then exiled to Kolyma in Northeast Siberia for 10 years . He studied folklore, ethnography and languages ​​intensively and was able to participate in the Yakut expedition (also named after its sponsor Innokenti Michailowitsch Sibirjakow (1860-1901)) of the Russian Geographical Society (1894-1897) and then return to Saint Petersburg. Like Waldemar Jochelson , he organized Russian parts of the large Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1904) coordinated by Franz Boas .

His well-known stories from the Chukchi Peninsula (1899) were translated into German by Hans Findeisen and Ludwig Sauer (Ms.).

After the October Revolution he worked for the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography and, like Lev Sternberg, lecturer at the Leningrad University . He founded the Institute for the Peoples of the North.

Bogoras died on the way to Rostov-on-Don .

Works (selection)

• 1904, 1907, 1909: The Chukchee , The Jesup North Pacific Expedition , Franz Boas (Ed.), Vol. VII, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History , Vol. XI, Parts I ( Material Culture ), II ( Religion ) , III ( Social Organization ), Leiden, EJ Brill u. New York: GE Stechert.
• 1910: Chukchee Mythology , The Jesup North Pacific Expedition , Franz Boas (Ed.), Vol. VIII, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History , Vol. XII, Part I, Leiden u. New York.
• 1913: The Eskimo of Siberia , The Jesup North Pacific Expedition , Franz Boas (Ed.), Vol. VIII, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History , Vol. XII, Part III, Leiden, EJ Brill u. New York, GE Stechert.
• 1917: Koryak Texts , Publications of the American Ethnological Society , Volume V, Ranz Boas (Ed.), Leiden u. New York.
• 1918: Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russionized Natives of Eastern Siberia , Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History , Vol. XX, Part I, New York.
• 1925: Ideas of Space and Time in the Conception of Primitive Religion. In: American Anthropologist (NS), Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 205-266.

Literary works (selection)

• Works, 10 volumes, 1910-'11
• Čukotskie rasskazy (Tales from Chukotka), 1899
• Vosem 'plemën (Eight Tribes), 1902
• Kolymskie rasshazy (Stories from Kolyma), 1931
• Voskresšee plemja (The Risen Tribe), 1935

literature

• MA Czaplicka : Aboriginal Siberia, a study in social anthropology. With a preface by RR Marett. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1914
• Hans Findeisen : Siberian shamanism and magic . Augsburg 1953 (treatises and essays from the Institute for Human and Human Studies No. 3)
• Item Tan. In: Wolfgang Kasack : Lexicon of Russian Literature from 1917 (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 451). Kröner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-45101-8 , p. 393f.
• Katharina Gernet: VG Bogoraz (1865–1936): A bibliography. (104 pages) Communications from the Eastern European Institute Munich 33, 1999. ISBN 3-921396-45-X ( online )
• Peter P. Schweitzer: Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovich . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 267–269 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

• Biographical essay about the Russian-Jewish activist, ethnologist and writer Vladimir G. Tan
• Waldemar Bogoras - English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Findeisen, p. 28.