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Vera Ivanovna Tsintsius
Born(1903-08-08)8 August 1903
Died(1983-01-15)15 January 1983
EducationDoctor of Philological Sciences
Alma materDepartment of Geography SPBU
Occupation(s)linguistics, Institute of the Peoples of the North
Known forReasearch of the Tungusic languages

Tsintsius Vera Ivanovna (8 Aug. 1903, St. Petersburg - 15 Jan. 1983, Leningrad) was a linguist, specialist in Tungusic languages, Altaicist.

Biography

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Tsintsius was born in Ligovo, St. Petersburg. [1] She graduated from the ethnographic department of the geography faculty of the Leningrad State University, and taught Tungusic languages at the Institute of the Peoples of the North. In 1937-1939 she was imprisoned on false charges of counter-revolutionary propaganda among students of the Institute. [2] In 1941 she defended her Ph.D. thesis “Even language. Grammar. (Phonetics and Morphology)”; in 1944 - her doctoral dissertation ‘Comparative Phonetics of the Tunguso-Manchurian Languages’ (published in 1949). In 1972, she was awarded the Indiana University Prize for achievements in the field of Altaic studies (the so-called “PIAC Gold Medal”). N. N. Poppe described V. I. Tsintsius as “the most outstanding researcher in the field of Tungusic languages”, who possessed “extensive knowledge of the material and modern methods of comparative linguistics”[3]. From 1972, Tsintsius was an honorary member of the Kőrösi Csoma Scientific Society of Hungarian Orientalists.

Main works

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  • Tsintsius V. I. An Essay on the Grammar of the Even (Lamut) Language. - Leningrad, 1947.
  • Tsintsius V. I. Comparative phonetics of the Tunguso-Manchurian languages. - Leningrad: Uchpedgiz, 1949.
  • Tsintsius V. I. Sketch of the morphology of the Oroch language // Scientific Notes of the Leningrad State University of Oriental Studies - 1949. - issue 1, № 98.
  • Russian-Even dictionary / Compiled by V. I. Tsintsius and L. D. Riches. - Moscow, 1952.
  • Tsintsius V. I. Riddles of the Negidal people // Scientific Notes of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. - 1957. - Т. 132.
  • Even-Russian dictionary. About 10,000 words / Compiled by V. I. Tsintsius, L. D. Riches. - Leningrad: Uchpedgiz, 1958.
  • Tsintsius V. I. Beliefs of the Negidal people associated with hunting // Religious beliefs and rituals of the peoples of Siberia in the XIX - early XX century - Leningrad, 1971. - (Soviet Medical Anthropologists and Ethnographers Council. VOL. 27).
  • Tsintsius V. I. On the etymology of Altaic kinship terms // Essays on comparative lexicology of Altaic languages. - Leningrad, 1972.
  • Tsintsius V. I. The ritual folklore of the Negidal people associated with fishing // Folklore and ethnography. - Leningrad, 1974.
  • Tsintsius V. I. Mongolisms-dublets in the Manchu language // Studies on Oriental philology (To the seventieth anniversary of Professor G. D. Sanzheev). - Мoscow, 1974. - С. 297-305.
  • Comparative Dictionary of Tunguso-Manchurian Languages: Materials of an Etymological Dictionary / Editor-in-Chief V. I. Tsintsius. - Leningrad: Nauka, 1975.
  • Tsintsius V. I. Negidal language. - Leningrad: Nauka. 1982

References

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  1. ^ Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia / ed. by V. A. Lamin - Novosibirsk: 2009. - ISBN 5-8402-0230-4
  2. ^ "Tsintsius Vera Ivanovna (1903—1981)". People and Fates: A Biobibliographical Dictionary of Orientalists - Victims of Political Terror in the Soviet Period (1917—1991) (in Russian). СПб. 2003. p. 496. ISBN 5-85803-225-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Sanzheev G (1951). "10". Review : V. I. Tsintsius. Comparative phonetics of the Tungus-Manchurian languages. Uchpedgiz, Leningrad, 1949, 342 pp (in Russian). p. 204—205. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06.

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