Boris Turayev

Boris Alexandrovich Turajew (Russian Борис Александрович Тураев, English transliteration: .. Turaev or Turayev; born 24 Julijul / August 5 1868greg in Nawahradak; † July 23, 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Russian Orientalist and Egyptologist.

Life

Turajew studied in Saint Petersburg ( completion 1891) and later by Gaston Maspero in Paris and Adolf Erman in Berlin Egyptology, worked in museums in both capitals and at the British Museum in London. From 1896 he lectured at the University of Saint Petersburg, where he became a full professor in 1911. He organized the purchase of the Egyptian collection of Vladimir Semenovich Golenishtchev for the Moscow Pushkin Museum, which he then edited scientifically. With his student Vasily Vasilievich Struve he gave in 1930 a translation of the Moscow papyrus out. In 1911 he published his major work "The History of the ancient Near East" (in Russian ) in two volumes. It covers the area from Iran and Central Asia to Carthage. 1920 his book on Egyptian literature, appeared in Moscow in 1898 a book about the Egyptian god Thoth ( Russian).

Turajew was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1918. His own Egyptian collection he bequeathed to the Hermitage.