Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin ( rus, Иван Иванович Зарубин; 27 September 1887 – 3 February 1964) was a
Soviet specialist of
Iranian languages, particularly
Pamir languages
The Pamir languages are an areal group of the Eastern Iranian languages, spoken by numerous people in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Pamir language family was s ...
.
Life
Zarubin was born in 1887.
[Paul Bergne The Birth of Tajikistan. National Identity and the Origins of the Republic. London: I.B. Tauris, 1998. p. 143.] He wrote dozens of books on Iranian languages and was the leading authority in the Soviet Union of the Pamir languages spoken in
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast
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in the
Tajik SSR.
[ He was a professor at Leningrad University, a position he held until 1949,][ and was director of the Department of the Near East and Central Asia at the Kunstkamera in Leningrad.][Department of Central Asia, Kunstkamera]
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In the summer of 1914, Zarubin, together with a French
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Iranist
Iranian studies ( fa, ايرانشناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...
Robert Gauthiot Robert Edmond Gauthiot (13 June 1876, Paris – 11 September 1916, Paris) was a French Orientalist, linguist and explorer. Born in Paris, he became, in 1909, a member of the Société Asiatique and met Paul Pelliot. Together, they translated the S ...
, traveled to the Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range between Central Asia and Pakistan. It is located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya mountain ranges. They are among the world ...
and conducted linguistic and ethnographic research. Over the coming decades, Zarubin continued to conduct linguistic, folkloric and ethnographic studies in the Pamirs and elsewhere in Central Asia. One of his greatest achievements was the 1926–30 Central Asian ethnological expedition on behalf of the Academy of Sciences.[
A large portion of the Pamir collection at the Kunstkamera's Department of the Near East and Central Asia was acquired during Zarubin's work in the Pamirs in 1914.][ Zarubin usually published his works under the named I. I. Zarubin.
Zarubin died in 1964.][
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Selected bibliography
* , 1925.
* S.S.S.R., 1926.
* , 1926.
* , 1927.
* , 1927.
* , 1927.
* , 1927.
* = , 1927.
* = , 1928.
* , 1930, no. 5.
* . Leningrad: , 1930.
* . Leningrad: , 1932.
* . Publisher: Leningrad, 1932. co-written with Daniil Zatočnik.
* Two Yazghulāmī Texts. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, 1936, vol. 8, no. 2/3, pp. 875-881.
* , 1937.
* , 1960.
* , 1963.
* . Donetsk, 1969.
* , 1974.
* , 1983. co-written with Vladimir Michajlovič Blinov and Ch P Neškov.
References
External links
Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin
- The Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Soviet linguists
20th-century linguists
Iranologists
Russian orientalists
1887 births
1964 deaths