Nicholas Poppe

Nicholas Poppe (also: Nicholas Poppe; Russian Николай Николаевич Поппе, Nikolai Nikolaevich Poppe; born July 27, 1897 in Yantai, China; † August 8, 1991 in Seattle, Washington) was a versatile linguist, the Altai to the Mongolian and the larger family of languages ​​was specialized. By 1943, Poppe worked in the Soviet Union, then in Germany and the USA.

Biography

Poppe's father stood as a consulate official in Russia's diplomatic service and was stationed at the time of its birth in China.

1923 Poppe began to teach at the University of Leningrad. In 1931 he became Head of Mongolian studies at the Institute of Asian Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1933 he was elected at age 36 the youngest candidate of the Academy.

1943 Poppe ran in the Caucasus to the Nazis, the Germans helped to install a Quisling regime in the region, Karachai, which immediately confiscated all Jewish property and soon after murdered the Jewish population. Poppe moved to Berlin, where he worked at the Wannsee Institute of the SS, which drew up the plans for the " Final Solution of the Jewish Question".

After Germany's defeat he was wanted by the Soviet authorities for war crimes, first worked for the British and later for the U.S. Secret Service, came in 1949 in the United States. There he first lived under an assumed name, 'studies for the Foreign Office and then taught until his retirement in 1968 at the University of Washington. In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn.

Under McCarthy, he participated in the anti-communist witch hunt against academic colleagues and employees of the Foreign Office and said, among other things, against Owen Lattimore out.

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