Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova

Russian linguist (1899–1941)

Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova
Born	(1899-05-31)31 May 1899 Soninka, Novgorod guberniya, Russian Empire
Died	28 October 1941(1941-10-28) (aged 42) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics, Turkology, Folklore studies, Ethnography

Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova (Russian: Наде́жда Петро́вна Дыренко́ва; 31 May 1899 - 28 October 1941) was a Soviet ethnographer, Turkic linguist, and folklorist.

Biography

Dyrenkova was born on 31 May 1899 in the village Soninka in Novgorod guberniya to a family of lumberjacks.^[1]

Dyrenkova died at her desk during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. She had been ill from a severe sunburn contracted during fieldwork in 1932, and also contracted pneumonia shortly before her death.^[2]

Nicholas Poppe included Dyrenkova on a list of 29 outstanding Turkologists.^[3]

References

^ Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 40–62.
^ Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 42.
^ Nicholas Poppe (1965): Introduction to Altaic Linguistics. Volume 14 of Ural-altaische Bibliothek. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.