Wladislaw Ludwigowitsch Kotwitsch

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Wladislaw Ludwigowitsch Kotwitsch

Vladislav Ludwigowitsch Kotwitsch ( Russian Владислав Людвигович Котвич , Polish Władysław Kotwicz; born March 20 . Jul / 1. April  1872 . Greg in the village Ossowje at Lida , Vilna Governorate , † 3. October 1944 in the village Juodšiliai in Vilnius ) was a Russian - Polish Mongolian , Altaist and university professor .

Life

Kotwitsch began studying at the University of St. Petersburg in the Faculty of Oriental Studies in 1891 . He specialized in Mongolian languages , but also studied Manchurian and Chinese . After graduating in 1895, he worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Finance.

In 1900 Kotwitsch defended his doctoral dissertation , after which he was appointed private lecturer and head of the chair for Mongolian philology at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1902 he organized the Collectanea Orientalia book series , which he financed himself (there were 16 editions until 1939, the series was discontinued after the German-Soviet War ). He regularly took part in expeditions to Kalmykia (1894, 1896, 1910, 1917). On the expedition to northern Mongolia in 1912 he studied the Orkhon runes and the Erdene Dsuu monastery . After the October Revolution , he built the new Central Institute for Living Eastern Languages, of which he was director. In 1923 he was appointed professor and elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

In 1922 Kotwitsch received a call to the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and a call to the Jan Casimir University in Lviv . He decided on Lviv and came to Lviv in 1924 after being naturalized to Poland in 1923, where he became head of the professorship for Far Eastern Philology that had been created for him . The new Polish Society of Oriental Studies elected him its chairman. In 1927 he became editor-in-chief of the Polish magazine for oriental studies. He was a full member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności .

In addition to the Mongolian languages, the Altaic languages and the history of Central and East Asia were Kotwitsch's research focuses.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c University of St. Petersburg: Котвич Владислав Людвигович (accessed on September 8, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Большая российская энциклопедия: КО́ТВИЧ (Kotwicz) Владислав Людвигович (accessed September 8, 2019).
  3. ↑ Russian Academy of Sciences: Котвич Владислав Людвигович (accessed September 8, 2019).
  4. ↑ Władysław Kotwicz: Les pronoms dans les langues alta ї ques . Krakow 1936.
  5. ↑ Władysław Kotwicz: La langue mongole, parlée par les Ouigours Jaunes près de Kan-tcheou . Vilna 1939.
  6. ↑ Władysław Kotwicz: Contribution à lhistoire de Lasie Centrale . In: Rocznik Orientalistyczny . 1948.
  7. ↑ Władysław Kotwicz: The Russian delegation trip to China in 1805: the life and work of Count Jan Potocki . Bell, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-923308-61-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Kotwitsch, Wladislaw Ludwigowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Котвич, Владислав Людвигович (Russian); Kotwicz, Władysław (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Mongolist, Altaist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Ossovye at Lida
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1944
Place of death Juodšiliai near Vilna