Vladimir Bogoraz

Vladimir Hermanovitch Bogoras (Russian: Владимир Германович Богораз; * 15 Apriljul / April 27 1865greg in Ovruch, † May 10, 1936. . ), Pseudonym as a poet and storyteller: Tan, was a Russian revolutionary and ethnographer. He made ​​important contributions to ethnography of the Chukchi and other peoples of northeastern Siberia.

Life

Bogoras 1880 came to Saint Petersburg, he joined while studying at the Populists, was imprisoned and then exiled for 10 years after Kolyma in northeastern Siberia. He studied intensively folklore, ethnography and languages, and could ( also named after its sponsor Sibiryakov IM ) on the Yakut Expedition of the Russian Geographical Society ( 1894-97 ) to participate and then go back to Saint Petersburg. As Waldemar Jochelson he organized Russian parts of the large, coordinated by Franz Boas Jesup North Pacific Expedition ( 1902-04 ).

His famous " Tales of the Chukotka " (1899 ) were translated into German by Hans Findeisen and Louis Sauer ( Ms. ).

He was after the October Revolution staff of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography and how Lev Sternberg lecturer at the Leningrad University. He founded the Institute of the Peoples of the North.

Bogoras died on the way to Rostov- on-Don.

Works (selection)

Literary works (selection)

• Works, 10 volumes, 1910 - '11
• Čukotskie rasskazy (Tales from Chukotka ), 1899
• Vosem ' plemën ( eight strains), 1902
• Kolymskie rasshazy ( Kolyma Tales ), 1931
• Voskresšee plemja ( The Risen Master ), 1935