Vasily Radlov

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vasilievich and the family name is Radlov.
Vasily Radlov
Radlov in 1917
Born(1837-01-17)January 17, 1837
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
DiedMay 12, 1918(1918-05-12) (aged 81)
Petrograd, Russian SFSR
OccupationTurkologist

Vasily Vasilievich Radlov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ра́длов), born Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1837 – 12 May 1918) was a German and Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of Turkic peoples. He was the first to publish the Orhon inscriptions (though he did not succeed in deciphering them).

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