Qanate Kurdo (, ; 12 September 1909 – 31 October 1985) was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

and professor of the

Kurdish language Kurdish (, , ) is a Northwestern Iranian languages, Northwestern Iranian language or dialect continuum, group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in southeast Turkish Kurdistan, Turkey, northern Iraqi Kurdistan, Ira ...

. He was born in

Susuz Susuz (, , ) is a town in Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Susuz District.

, then part of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

, and attended a Kurdish school in

Tiflis Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia ( ...

(Tbilisi). He received a scholarship to pursue a higher education at the University of Leningrad and developed

Kurdish studies Kurdology or Kurdish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Kurds and consists of several disciplines such as culture, history and linguistics. Kurdish studies traces its institutional history to 1916, when in St. Petersburg in t ...

in various fields.

Biography

Qanate Kurdo was born in the village of

Susuz Susuz (, , ) is a town in Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Susuz District.

, then part of the Kars oblast of the Russian Empire, now located in Turkey. Along with other Kurds, his family fled Ottoman oppression in 1918 (Kars oblast was ceded to the Ottomans in March of that year) and settled in the Aparan district of Armenia. The Turkish invasion of Armenia caused them to flee again, this time to

(Tbilisi, Georgia). In 1921, he met Hakob ("Lazo") and Olga Ghazarian, the founders of the first Kurdish school in Tiflis. In 1928, he became one of the first of Lazo's students who were sent to receive a higher education in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

on a scholarship from the Central Committee of the Armenian Communist Party. The scholarships were granted at the initiative of the Kurdish author

Arab Shamilov Arab Shamilov (, also known as ; 23 January 1897 – 1978) was a Kurdish novelist and scholar who lived in the Soviet Union. Early career Arab Shamilov was born on 23 January 1897 in the village of Susuz in the Kars oblast, now located in e ...

(Erebe Shemo). He attended the Language, History and Literature Department of University of Leningrad. His teachers included the Iranologist

Alexander Freiman Alexander Arnoldovich Freiman (; August 22, 1879, Warsaw – January 19, 1968, Leningrad) was a Polish-Soviet researcher of the Iranian languages The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian lan ...

and the orientalist

Joseph Orbeli Joseph Orbeli (, Hovsep Abgari Orbeli; ; 20 March ( O.S. 8 March) 1887 – 2 February 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museu ...

. He studied the Baluchi and Pamir languages with

Ivan Zarubin Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin (; 27 September 1887 – 3 February 1964) was a Soviet specialist of Iranian languages, particularly Pamir languages. Life Zarubin was born in 1887.Paul Bergne The Birth of Tajikistan. National Identity and the Origins of t ...

and

Nikolai Marr Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (, ''Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr''; , ''Nikoloz Iak'obis dze Mari''; — 20 December 1934) was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking o ...

. He received his PhD in 1941. He fought in

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

and was wounded. When the war was reaching its end, Kurdo became part of the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Leningrad, where he taught

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) **Central Kurdish (Sorani) **Southern Kurdish ** Laki Kurdish *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern ...

in the Department of Iranian Studies. In 1961, he became the head of the new Kurdology section () of the Institute of Asian Peoples of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, established by

in 1959.

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List of Kurdo's publications
(in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kurdo, Qanate Kurdish-language writers 1909 births 1985 deaths Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University People from Kars oblast Russian people of Kurdish descent Kurdologists Kurdish scholars Soviet historians

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