Johannes Jährig

Johannes year round ( born March 17, 1747 in Mr Hague, now Büdingen, † June 26, 1795 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German Mongolist and Mongols researcher and translator of Tibetan and Mongolian texts.

Life

Johannes year was born the son of Johann Gottlieb year and Anna Barbara born Stephan on Mr Hague in Büdingen. The parents were members of the Moravian Brethren, who had found their stay to 1751 on the Mr Hague. After the departure of the brothers 1751 Großhennersdorf year to 1752 lived in the local children's hospital of the Brethren.

On June 9, 1760 year was admitted into the congregation in Herrnhut. On June 11, 1766 he was sent as a book printer to Barby. On October 13, 1769, he reached Sarepta on the lower Volga. From 1770 year made ​​contact with the Kalmyks and learned their language. According to the Moravians year business entrusted to him on Indigo Printer Printer with loss. As a consequence, he was suspended from the Ältestenconferenz. 1773 was the exclusion from the Brethren. Year had to leave Sarepta and should be sent to Astrakhan. 1774 year met Peter Simon Pallas, who gave him a position at the Imperial Academy of Sciences. In April 1780 visit led him again to Zarephath. In June 1780, he traveled from Saratov to the Chinese border. An order of the Medical Colleg led him in 1790 from Petersburg to the Chinese border. John died in 1795 the year in St. Petersburg.

Services

Johannes year learned the Tibetan language and the translations of the letters sent by the Dalai Lama at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He worked on the grammar of the Mongolian languages ​​, and sent 1792 the " rudiments of Tibätischen Scriptures and language teaching" at the Academy as its principal. Within two years he was able to present the " Mongolian letters research ".

He explored and described the manners and customs, history and ethnography of the Mongol tribes on the Volga Kalmyks and Buryats of the Baikal.

Year explained the contents of an astrological collection of Indian origin. He described Kalmyk healing methods, translations and excerpts from works also in the Tibetan language. The Academy received from him samples of the plant and animal kingdoms from the steppe and medicinal herb of the Kalmyks.

Works

• Rudiments of Tibätischen Scriptures and language teaching. ( unpublished)