Rjurik Lonin

Rjurik Lonin (Russian Рюрик Петрович Лонин; born September 22, 1930 in Kaskez ( Kasr ), † 17 July, 2009 Schjoltosero ) was one of the most important wepsischen writer.

Career

Lonin was as a member of the minority of the wasp on September 22, 1930 Born in Kaskez, a village on Lake Ladoga in Karelia. At times he lived in Petrozavodsk and began there in the 1950s, writing poetry in his mother tongue wepsischen. In 1956 he collected songs, poems and other evidence of wepsischen culture and settled in 1958 in the village Schjoltosero on Lake Ladoga, where he in 1967 founded the still existing Ethnological Museum of wepsischen culture. This is the only museum that illustrates the history and culture of the wasp, and is still considered Schjoltosero as the cultural center of the wasp. Lonin worked in his learned profession as a toolmaker and also wrote several books in Russian. In the late 1980s he wrote Iiesusan elu ( Life of Jesus) and translated the Gospel of Mark into Wepsische. This motivated other wepsische authors, the entire Bible to be translated into Wepsische. Lonins important work in wepsischer language was published in 2000 under the title Minun rahvan folklor ( The folklore of my people ). Rjurik Lonin died on 17 July 2009 at the age of 78 years in Schjoltosero.

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