Vasily Radlov

Vasily Radlov (born January 17, 1837, Berlin, Germany—died May 12, 1918, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a German scholar and government adviser who made fundamental contributions to the knowledge of the ethnography, folklore, culture, ancient texts, and linguistics of the Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia and Central Asia. Radlov engaged in Oriental studies at the University of Berlin during the 1850s, and after completing his education he taught in a secondary school at Barnaul in southwestern...