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Friedrich von Adelung (February 25, 1768 – January 30, 1843) was a German-Russian linguist, historian and bibliographer. His best known works are in the fields of bibliography of Sanskrit language and the European accounts of the Time of Troubles in Russia. BiographyA nephew of historian Johann Christoph Adelung, Friedrich von Adelung was born in Stettin. He graduated from Leipzig University, traveled across Europe and settled in Saint Petersburg in 1794. After a brief state service in Mitau (1795–1797), Adelung relocated to Saint Petersburg for the rest of his life. He assumed the role of a state supervisor for the German-Russian community, first in German book censorship, later (1801) as the manager of German-language theaters. In 1803 he was appointed as a tutor to Grand Duke Nicholas, heir apparent and the future Tsar, and his brother Michael. A collection of antiques compiled by Adelung and sold in 1804 to Vasiliy Karazin, founder of the Kharkiv University, formed the nucleus of Kharkiv University library. Adelung was an honorary professor of Kharkiv and Dorpat universities since 1809. In 1819 Adelung joined the Foreign Ministry service, and in 1825 assumed control of its Institute of Oriental Languages. At that time it was the only college in Europe offering studies in Persian and Turkish languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1819.[1] In 1818 he became associated member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands.[2] In 1810s Adelung promoted the idea of setting up a Russian National Museum dedicated exclusively to national history (in opposition to pan-European Hermitage Museum), later praised as a "local Russian breakthrough in museology."[3] Unlike the Russia for Russians ideologists, Adelung specifically addressed the country's diversity with his plans to set up a repository for the sources in nearly a hundred languages spoken in Russia, and compiling dictionaries and grammars for the languages that yet had no established written tradition.[4] Adelung believed that his linguistic studies were targeting not the languages themselves, but the history of nations and races.[5] From the end of Napoleonic Wars until his death in Saint Petersburg, Adelung was involved in sorting, reviewing and categorizing the European manuscripts related to pre-Petrine Russian history. He published biographies and critical assessments of Sigismund von Herberstein (1818), August von Meyerberg (1827), Conrad Bussow and other major sources on Muscovy; the work culminated in Kritisch-literarische Übersicht der Reisenden in Rußland bis 1700 (Critical bibliographical review of the memoirs by travelers into Russia prior to 1700). The book, published posthumously in 1846, earned the Demidov Prize of the Russian Academy. In a completely unrelated effort, Adelung compiled a bibliography of then known Sanskrit sources; an abridged version of his work has been since regularly reprinted (latest English reissue: 2008). All works by Adelung were originally written and published in German language. Adelung's elder son Karl (1803–1829) joined Russian diplomatic service and was killed in Tehran together with Alexandr Griboyedov. Another son, Nikolay, followed father's profession and became an editor and publisher of his works. References
Notes1. ^Andresen, Tetel, p. 53 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00001554 |title=Friedrich von Adelung (1768 - 1843) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |accessdate=26 July 2015}} 3. ^Burbank, Ransel, p. 92 4. ^Burbank, Ransel, p. 95 5. ^Aronoff, Rees-Miller, p. 93 External links{{Wikisource|:de:Friedrich von Adelung|Bibliography of works by Friedrich von Adelung (in German)}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Adelung, Friedrich}} 13 : 1768 births|1843 deaths|People from Szczecin|German historians|Linguists from Germany|Imperial Russian historians|Imperial Russian male writers|Linguists from Russia|Corresponding Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences|Honorary Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences|Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences|Demidov Prize laureates|German male non-fiction writers |
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