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Nikolai Marr

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Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864-1934)

AcademicsLived 1864 to 1934 · aged 69
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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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Photos 3

Nikolai Marr in 1905Nikolai Marr in 1905Marr's Ani expedition (1912)Marr's Ani expedition (1912)

Awards 8

Order of Lenin
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class
Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
Honored Scientist of the RSFSR
Order of Saint Stanislaus
Order of St. Vladimir
Order of Saint Anna

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About this person

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1864 to 1934 · aged 69
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28 languages

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