Erkert, Rodrig Fedorovich

Rodrig Fedorovich Erkert , Rodrig Fedorovich von Erkert , Roderich von Erkert , German. Roderich von Erckert (1821, Chelmno - 1900, Berlin ) is a German ethnographer and officer who served in Russia. Full member of the Russian Geographical Society .

Rodrig Fedorovich Erkert
Roderich von erckert
Photo: Levitsky and son , approx. 1885
Date of Birth	December 15, 1821 ( 1821-12-15 )
Place of Birth	Chelmno
Date of death	December 12, 1900 ( 1900-12-12 ) (78 years old)
A place of death	Berlin
A country
Scientific field	linguistics , ethnography , Caucasian studies

Author of essays on the history and ethnography of the western provinces of Russia and the Caucasus, compiler of ethnographic maps and craniological tables, participant in the compilation of the monumental work Ethnographic Description of the Peoples of Russia, published in 1862 under the editorship of Gustav-Theodore Pauli .

The monumental work “The Languages ​​of the Caucasian Tribes” published the first materials in Caucasian linguistics on Caucasian languages ​​and dialects: Volume 1 includes a dictionary (545 words), Volume 2 short grammar essays and translation of phrases (169 sentences and combinations) in 30 languages ​​and dialects of three autochthonous Caucasian language families:

• Nakh-Dagestan (“Lezgin”): Avar, Andean, Karatin, Dido, Lak, Varkun, Kubachi, Kaitag, Akushin, Hurkilin, Udin, Kyurin, Rutul, Tsakhur, Agul, Tabasaran, Bukhu, Jack, Khchin,
• Abkhaz-Adyghe ("Circassian"): Abadzekh, Kabardian, Shapsug, Abkhaz
• Kartvelian: Igniloy, Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz, Svan