Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova

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Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova
Born(1899-05-31)31 May 1899
Died28 October 1941(1941-10-28) (aged 42)
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics, 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]

  1. ^ Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 40–62.
  2. ^ Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 42.
  3. ^ Nicholas Poppe (1965): Introduction to Altaic Linguistics. Volume 14 of Ural-altaische Bibliothek. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.