Konstantin Fedorovich Golstunsky ( June 14, 1831 , Vasilsursk , now Nizhny Novgorod Region - July 4, 1899 , St. Petersburg ) - Russian Mongolian .
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| Birth name | |
| Date of Birth | June 14, 1831 |
| Place of Birth | Vasilsursk |
| Date of death | July 4, 1899 (68 years old) |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Scientific field | Mongolian studies |
| Place of work | Kazan University |
| Alma mater | Kazan University (1853) |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Literature (1880) |
Biography
Konstantin Golstunsky was born on June 14, 1831 in the city of Vasilsursk in a family of Tatar Mirza . By Tatar nationality.
He studied at the Kazan gymnasium (issue 1849), and then at Kazan University . In 1853 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Kazan University. After graduation, he was a teacher of the Mongolian language at the Kazan gymnasium, after which he moved to the capital of the Russian Empire to work at St. Petersburg University [1] .
In 1856, Konstantin Fedorovich Golstunsky was sent to the nomads of the Astrakhan and Stavropol provinces to familiarize themselves with the language of the Kalmyks .
Professor of St. Petersburg University (since 1860). In 1880 he published a work (doctoral dissertation “Mongol-Oirat Laws of 1640 , additional decrees of Galdan-hun-Taijiya and laws drawn up for the Volga Kalmyks under the Kalmyk Khan Donduk-Dasha ”), containing the full Oirat text and a translation of this monument on the history of the Mongols accompanied by a commentary of about 160 articles. Golstunsky owns a large Mongolian-Russian dictionary, which takes into account Kalmyk vocabulary and develops Buddhist terminology, as well as the fundamental "Russian-Kalmyk Lexicon". On behalf of the Synod, he translated a number of liturgical books into Mongolian.
He married Natalya Petrovna Pavlova (noblewoman), had six children.
Been in the Roerich family; his stories about travels and customs and customs of the eastern peoples influenced the young N.K. Roerich .
Konstantin Fedorovich Golstunsky died on July 4, 1899 and was buried in the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery [2] next to his wife.
Compositions
- Mongolian-Russian Dictionary, vols. 1-3, St. Petersburg, 1893-95: lithograph. reprint, L., 1938.
- Mongol-Oirat Laws, 1640, St. Petersburg, 1880.
- Russian-Kalmyk dictionary, St. Petersburg, printing house of the Academy of Sciences, 1860, IV, 136 pp.
Notes
- ↑ Golstunsky, Konstantin Fedorovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Grave on the plan of the cemetery // Division IV // All Petersburg for 1914, address and reference book of St. Petersburg / Ed. A.P. Shashkovsky. - SPb. : Partnership of A. S. Suvorin - “New Time”, 1914. - ISBN 5-94030-052-9 .
Literature
- Ivanovsky A. O., In memory of K. F. Golstunsky, “Notes of the Eastern Department of the Russian Archaeological Society”, 1900, v. 12.
- “Mongolica-V:” Collection of articles dedicated to K. F. Golstunsky St. Petersburg, 2001
- Chimitdorzhiev Sh. B. Golstunsky K.F. // Russian Mongolists (XVIII - early XX centuries). - Ulan-Ude