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Nikolai Fyodorovich Katanov
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Katanov - a Turkologist, ethnographer, Doctor of Philological Sciences, and Doctor of Comparative Linguistics. Katanov was born in the steppe area of Izyum (Uzyum), now in the Askizsky District of Khakassia. He received an excellent education - he graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Gymnasium with a gold medal and from the Faculty of Oriental Languages of Saint Petersburg University. In subsequent years he took part in scientific expeditions, studying the life, customs, languages, and folklore of the Turkic peoples of Siberia, Mongolia, and China.
From 1893 Katanov was a professor at Kazan University. He studied Bashkir dialects, worked as a censor, textbook editor, and chairman of the Translation Commission. At the Kazan Theological Academy he lectured on the history of Christianity and taught the Tatar language, publishing a dictionary and a chrestomathy. After 1917 he returned to Kazan University and subsequently became a professor. In 1903 Katanov defended his master's thesis on the Uryankhay language, and in 1907 he received the degree of Doctor of Comparative Linguistics. Nikolai Fyodorovich Katanov passed away on March 10, 1922. A lane in Kazan and Khakas University are named after him.
Date of birth
18 May 1862
Date of death
09 March 1922
Occupation
Educator