Vasily Radlov

Vasily Radlov, born Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff in Berlin in 1837, a doctor of Jena, left for Russia in 1858 and taught for twelve years in Barnaul, from where he led some ten expeditions in the Altai, the Kazakh steppe and as far as Fergana. Inspector of Muslim schools in Kazan from 1872, a member of the Imperial Academy in 1884, he directed until his death the museum of anthropology and ethnography in Saint Petersburg. In 1895 he published the ancient Turkic inscriptions of the Orkhon, transcribed and translated into German, and a large comparative dictionary of Turkic dialects. He died in May 1918.

In the catalogue 1

• EpicSpecimens of the Folk Literature of the Turkic TribesProben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen StämmeVasily Radlov · 1870Literature