Vladimir Minorsky

Vladimir Fedorovich Minorski (Russian: Владимир Фёдорович Минорский, scientific transliteration Vladimir Fedorovic Minorskij; born 24 Januarjul / February 5 1877greg in Kortschewa, Tver province, .. † March 25, 1966 in Cambridge ) was a Russian orientalist and Iranist. He was active mainly in the field of Kurdish Studies.

Professional career

Vladimir Minorski earned his degree with gold medal and then began studying at Moscow University, where he studied from 1896 to 1900 Jura. Upon completion of this subject he studied Oriental languages ​​at the Lazarev Institute.

In 1903, he joined the Russian Foreign Ministry, which until 1908 took him from 1904 to Persia and from 1908 to 1912 to St. Petersburg and to Turkestan.

In 1912 he was appointed Russian ambassador in Istanbul and participated in the following year as a member of the Imperial Russian Government Committee in the International Commission for the determination of the Turkish- Persian frontier. Thereafter, he was appointed to the Russian legation to Tehran, from where he went to France in 1919. There he worked for several years at the Russian Embassy in Paris.

From 1923 taught Vladimir Minorski Persian literature at the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, and later Turkish and Islamic history.

From August 1930 to January 1931 he served as Oriental Secretary at the Exhibition of Persian Art at Burlington House, London.

His work at the University of London began in 1932, where he worked as a lecturer in Persian language at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ). From 1933 he was a lecturer in Persian literature and history and in 1937 professor of Iranian Studies in succession to Sir ED Ross. In 1944, he retired and became an honorary member of the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ) appointed. From 1948 to 1949 he was a visiting professor at the University of Cairo Fu'ad.

The academic titles include Vladimir Minorskis Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (1943 ), honorary member of the Société Asiatique de Paris (1946) and Doctor honoris causa of the University of Brussels (1948 ).

Vladimir Minorski left more than 200 fonts. He was buried in 1969 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).

Works (selection)

  • Al- akr -ad, 1968
  • The Regions of the World, 1970
  • Iran and Islam, 1971
  • Persia, the Immortal Kingdom, 1971
  • The Turks, Iran and the Caucasus in the Middle Ages, 1978
  • Medieval Iran and its Neighbours, 1982
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