Heinrich August Zwick ( German: Heinrich August Zwick , 1796, Germany - 1855, Germany) is a German traveler, ethnographer, archaeologist, Lutheran pastor engaged in missionary work among Kalmyks in the first half of the 19th century.
| Henry August Zwick | |
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| Heinrich august zwick | |
| Date of Birth | 1796 |
| Date of death | 1855 |
| Occupation | , |
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- 1 Biography
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
Henry August Zwick was born in Germany. After receiving a theological education in the early 20s of the XIX century, he went to Russia as a pastor, where he began to live in a German colony in Sarept near Tsaritsyn . In Sarepta he founded a fraternal missionary society. From May to August 1823, together with another missionary, Schiele traveled to the Kalmyk steppe, where he got acquainted with the life, religion and language of the Kalmyks. He described this trip in his book The Journey from Sarepta to the Kalmyks of the Astrakhan Steppes , which was published in 1827 in German in Leipzig . He also published two books on the grammar of the Kalmyk language "Grammar of the West Mongolian (Oirat) language" and "Dictionary of the West Mongolian (Oirat) language" (published in 1852).
Heinrich Augustus Zwick lived in Sarept for 15 years from 1822 to 1836. As a Lutheran missionary, he repeatedly visited the Kalmyk steppe, was interested in the history of the Caucasus and visited Kabarda, Ossetia and Georgia.
He was engaged in collecting Golden Horde coins. In the 1830s, he bought a gold product found in the former capital of the Golden Horde Sarai and brought it to Germany, where it was called the “Crown of Janibek” [1] [2] . This purchase inspired him to archaeological excavations of the mounds, which were located in the vicinity of Sarepta. In 1834, he carried out archaeological excavations of two barrows with stone broads, in which he discovered the tips, a saber and burial human remains of the Bronze Age. The results of his archaeological excavations were published in the scientific journal Derpt Yearbook. In the fifth issue of this journal in 1836 his article was published on the ancient burial places of the Volgodonsk steppes.
In 1836 he returned to Germany, where he was engaged in the publication of his works.
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Literature
- Alekseeva P. E., Contribution to Russian Oriental Studies / Teegin Girl, Elista, 1981, No. 6, p. 107
- Formozov, A. A., The First Scientific Excavations in the Lower Volga Region, Soviet Archeology, 1971, No. 1, pp. 191–193
- Kruglov E.V., Mamontov V.I., Excavations of mounds in the vicinity of Sarepta / Sarepta. Historical and Ethnographic Bulletin, vol. 1, Volgograd, 2006, p. 87
- Mamontov V.I., In the footsteps of Pastor G. Zwick / Historical and local history notes, Vol. 6, Volgograd, 1989, pp. 81-86.