Metadata: N. V. Iushmanov
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- www.ranar.spb.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 925
- Title:
- N. V. Iushmanov
- Title (official language):
- Юшманов Н. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Iushmanov, Nikolai Vladimirovich
- Date(s):
- 1917/1946
- Language:
- French
- German
- Spanish; Castilian
- Russian
- Latin
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 52 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains N. V. Iushmanov’s scholarly works: manuscripts on artificial languages, international languages, comparative linguistics, Arabic and Semitic languages, and materials pertaining to them (1911-46); biographical materials, including a catalogue of N. V. Iushmanov’s personal library, his employment history booklet and notebooks he used as a student with notes on the grammar of Arabic and Hebrew for courses I-IV of Petersburg/Petrograd University (1914-20), as well as his correspondence and photographs (1917-46). There is also a separate file consisting of materials from the personal archive of the well-known linguist Prof. A. A. Reformatskii (undated). The fonds contains the following materials related to Jewish studies: a dictionary on notecards titled “Semitic Root Variants”, with annotation by an unidentified person stating that the dictionary “is relevant for specialists in Semitic languages and general linguistics, and for structuralists and machine-translation specialists” (1926); lecture notes – an autograph manuscript titled “An Introduction to Semitic Linguistics”, which includes analysis of the texts of the books of Job and Psalms, and cites the well-known Orientalists P. K. Kokovtsov and A. V. Shmidt as Hebrew exam assessors (1934); a draft manuscript of the monograph The Structure of the Semitic Root, including, among others, the following sections: “Features of the Semitic Root”, “The Theory of Semitic Roots”, “Difficulties in Analyzing the Root”, “Root Consonants”, “Cells”, and “Class Indicators”, as well as a detailed index on the Arabic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Assyrian-Babylonian and Egyptian languages (1940).
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Nikolai Vladimirovich Iushmanov (1896-1946) was a linguist specialising in Semitic and African languages and the standardisation of alphabets and terminology. In 1913-23, he studied in the Oriental languages department of St. Petersburg/Petrograd University, graduating with a specialisation in Semitic languages. He also studied phonetics and comparative linguistics in the history and philology department under the guidance of Prof. L. V. Shcherba. He began his scholarly activity in 1911 as an amateur student of interlinguistics, publishing articles on the question of the creation of an international artificial language. He was drafted in 1916; in 1917-21, he worked as an interpreter for the military radio station of the Soviet of Workers’, Soldiers and Peasants’ Deputies, and in 1921-23, as a translator and dispatch coordinator for Novaia Gollandiia, the marine radio station of the communication service of the Baltic Fleet. In 1924, he was admitted as a research fellow, and from 1926 as a graduate student, of the Research Institute of the Comparative History of the Literature and Languages of the West and East (ILIaZV) of Leningrad State University. In 1928-29, he worked as a senior assistant in the Oriental studies department of Leningrad State University (Language and Thinking Faculty) and in its Arabic philology department. In 1929, he defended his dissertation on the subject of “Semitic Root Varieties”. In 1930, he became associate professor in the department of the languages of the Soviet East at the Leningrad Institute of History, Philosophy and Linguistics (LIFLI) and from 1933 on he was a professor in this institute’s department of Semito-Hamitic languages and literatures. From 1934 to 1941, he served as a research specialist and senior associate of the N. Ia. Marr Institute of Language and Thinking of the USSR Academy of Sciences. On 24 January 1938, the Supreme Attestation Commission resolved that his degree of doctor of philology be approved without the need to defend a dissertation and on May 29 of the same year he was approved for hire as professor in the department of Semito-Hamitic languages of Leningrad State University. In 1943, he became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
The archive of the Academy of Sciences was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L L Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th to 20th centuries, separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th century) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803) as well as archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million items.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single series arranged by structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
