Metadata: N. V. Kiuner
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera)
- Holding institution (official language):
- Музей антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, Rossiia, Sankt-Peterburg, Universitetskaia nab., 3
- Phone number:
- (812) 328-41-81
- Email:
- museum@kunstkamera.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 8
- Title:
- N. V. Kiuner
- Title (official language):
- Кюнер Н. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- N. V. Kiuner
- Date(s):
- 1877/1957
- Language:
- Russian
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- English
- Kalmyk; Oirat
- Extent:
- 527 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes biographical materials and correspondence of N. V. Kiuner (1877-1955); his research works related to the compilation of ethnographic and historical maps of the East (1905-47); bibliographic, historiographic, and general works on Oriental studies (1911-54) and the history of science (1914-53); reviews (1928-55); various materials on the history and ethnography of China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, India, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Borneo, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and Russia (1897-1955); documents pertaining to N. V. Kiuner’s activities in universities and institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1905-57); and works by other authors (1900-51). Pertaining to Jewish history and culture are extracts from the literature for the period 1905-06: “On Judaism in the Far East,” which describes the first Jewish colony in Kaifeng, the main city of the Chinese province of Henan, and mentions the existence of a synagogue there in 1163; etc. (1906-07); newspaper clippings, including an article titled “Pogroms against Jews in Manchuria” from the English newspaper The Daily Herald (1930s); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Nikolai Vasil’evich Kiuner (1877-1955) was an Orientalist, historian, and ethnographer. In 1896, he graduated from secondary school [gimnaziia] and matriculated at St. Petersburg University in the department of Eastern languages, which he completed in 1900 with a gold medal in the Chinese-Manchurian-Mongolian category. From 1902 on, he was a professor at the Oriental Institute in Vladivostok. In 1909, he defended his master’s thesis and was awarded the degree of master in the history of the East. In 1925, he returned to Leningrad and worked at the Institute of Modern Eastern Languages (later the Oriental Institute), and concurrently in the ethnography department of Leningrad State University. In 1932 he joined the staff of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Science, in its Far East department, of which he became head in 1933. In 1935, he was conferred a PhD in history by the presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Among his over 400 publications, his main works are on the history, ethnography, and material culture of China, Japan, and Korea; research on and translations of classic historical literature; and research in source studies and bibliography. He republished N. Ia. Bichurin’s (1777-1853) work A Collection of Information about the Peoples That Dwelled in Central Asia in Ancient Times (1950-53). Among his most outstanding students were the historians and Orientalists P. V. Shkurkin, I. G. Baranov, L. N. Gumilev, N. P. Matsokin, B. I. Ponkratov, B. K. Pashkov, and K. A. Kharnsky.
- Access points: locations:
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- Central Asia
- China
- Far East
- Henan
- India
- Japan
- Kaifeng
- Kazakhstan
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Manchuria
- Mongolia
- Philippines
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Vietnam
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kiuner, Nikolai Vasil’evich
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary