Byambyn Rinchen

Bjambyn Rinchen (Mongolian Бямбын Ринчен; * 1905, † April 4, 1977 ) was a Mongolian writer.

Life

Rinchen was born the son of an employee near the Mongolian- Russian border town Kjachta. He attended high school and worked as an assistant clerk in the civil service at a young age. Temporary interpreters for Sükhbaatar, Rinchen studied from 1924 to 1927 at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Leningrad. He was one of the founding members of the Writers' Circle (1929) and was until 1937 the Scientific Committee and worked as an editor. As part of the " Great Purges " Rinchen was arrested and imprisoned innocent until 1942 for five years. Then again working as an editor, he received his doctorate in 1956 in Budapest. In the same year he became a professor at the State University, where he was appointed Director of Language section. 1961 Founding member of the Academy of Sciences, Rinchen was also the director of the state publishing house.

Work

The leading linguist has written, among other things a "Complete Grammar of the Mongolian language " (1964), but in addition also literary works, about the heroic epics, and work on folklore and ethnography (eg " Lamaist dance masks ", dt 1967). Important are his numerous translations of works of world literature (including Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Maupassant, Gorky, Mayakovsky, Sholokhov, Nazim Hikmet ).

Some early poems Rintschens already appeared in the first anthology of the newly founded Writers Circle (1929 ), he was known but only through the script for the highly successful historical film " Tsogt Taidsch " (1944). This already sounds to the main theme of his literary work - the freedom struggle of the Mongolian people in different historical eras.

Rintschens most important literary work is the trilogy " Dawn " (1951 /55), which paints a vivid picture of the changes in the Mongolian society from the late 19th century to the years after the revolution of 1921 based moving individual stories. In this first novel of modern Mongolian literature the author manages to combine artistic and stylistic traditions of the ancient Mongolian prose ( Wantschinbalyn Indschinasch ) with those of the Chinese and especially the European novel.

In addition to the historical novels " Dsaan Dsaluudai " (1964 /66), "The great Nomadenzug " (1972), "Governor Sandoo " (1973 ) and poems found Rintschens stories " The traitorous letter " (1957, German 1976), " The Princess Anu "(1959 )," The Princess "(1962 ) and others great recognition. Rintschens best works are distinguished by color rich language and a ground, enriched with archaisms style, making him at the time of the official side also earned criticism as a " nationalist ".

Rinchen one next Tsendiin Damdinsiiren and Donrowyn Namdag to the "three great elders " of Mongolian literature.

Translations

• In: explorations. 20 Mongolian stories, ( East) Berlin 1976
• W. Forman / B. Rinchen, Lamaist dance masks. The ERLIG - tsam in Mongolia, Leipzig 1967