Alexander Samoylovich
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December 29, 1880 Nizhny Novgorod |
| Died | February 13, 1938 (aged 57) Moscow |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Ethnologist, linguist |
Alexander Nikolaevich Samoylovich (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самойло́вич, 1880–1938) was a Russian Orientalist-Turkologist who served as a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Rector of the Leningrad Oriental Institute (1922–1925), academic secretary of the Humanities Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929–1933), and director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1934–1937). He was arrested by the NKVD in October 1937, and was executed on February 13, 1938.
Samoylovich was born December 29th, 1880, in Nizhny Novgorod, to the family of the director of the Nizhny Novgorod grammar school. He was of Ukrainian ethnicity. He studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Institute for Nobles, and then in the Oriental department of Saint Petersburg University, where he majored in Arabo-Persian-Türkic-Tatar languages. From 1907 he taught Türko-Tatar languages at St. Petersburg University, and in 1920 joined Vasily Bartold and Ivan Zarubin in providing Narkomnats with an ethnographic analysis of Turkestan and the Kirgiz steppe. In 1921 and 1922 he went to Turkestan ASSR, after which he became rector of a "Türkological seminar", which co-ordinated the work of Russian Turkologists. In 1924 he was elected a corresponding member, and in 1929 a full member (Academician), of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1927 he was part of an Academy of Sciences anthropological expedition to Kazakhstan which studied the lives and languages of ethnic Kazakhs in the Altai Mountains.
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