Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova
Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova | |
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| Born | 31 May 1899 Soninka, Novgorod guberniya, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 October 1941 (aged 42) |
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| Fields | Linguistics, Turkology, Folklore studies, Ethnography |
Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova (Russian: Наде́жда Петро́вна Дыренко́ва; 31 May 1899 - 28 October 1941) was a Soviet ethnographer, Turkic linguist, and folklorist.
Biography
[edit]Dyrenkova was born on 31 May 1899 in the village Soninka in Novgorod guberniya to a family of lumberjacks.[1]
Dyrenkova died at her desk during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. She had been ill from a severe sunburn contracted during fieldwork in 1932, and also contracted pneumonia shortly before her death.[2]
Nicholas Poppe included Dyrenkova on a list of 29 outstanding Turkologists.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 40–62.
- ^ Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 42.
- ^ Nicholas Poppe (1965): Introduction to Altaic Linguistics. Volume 14 of Ural-altaische Bibliothek. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
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