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Nikolai Marr

Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864-1934) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 69

Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking on his "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language, now considered as pseudo-scientific, and related speculative linguistic hypotheses.

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Order of Lenin
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class
Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
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Order of Saint Stanislaus
Order of St. Vladimir
Order of Saint Anna

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Country
Russia
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1864 to 1934 · aged 69

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