ნიკოლოზ იაკობის ძე მარი(Georgian) Николай Яковлевич Марр(Russian)
Nikolai Marr, circa 1930s
Born
Nikoloz Iakobis dze Mari
(1864-12-25)25 December 1864
Kutaisi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
20 December 1934(1934-12-20) (aged 69)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
Known for
Japhetic theory
Academic background
Education
St Petersburg University
Academic work
Discipline
Linguistics
Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (Никола́й Я́ковлевич Марр, Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr; ნიკოლოზ იაკობის ძე მარი, Nikoloz Iak'obis dze Mari; 6 January 1865 [O.S. 25 December 1864] — 20 December 1934) 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 (from 1924), now considered as pseudo-scientific,[1] and related speculative linguistic hypotheses.
Marr's hypotheses were used as a rationale in the campaign during the 1920–30s in the Soviet Union of introduction of Latin alphabets for smaller ethnicities of the country. In 1950, the "Japhetic theory" fell from official favour, with Joseph Stalin denouncing it as anti-Marxist.[citation needed]
^Alpatov, V.M. "Марр, марризм и сталинизм" [Marr, Marrism and Stalinism] (in Russian).
Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (Никола́й Я́ковлевич Марр, Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr; ნიკოლოზ იაკობის ძე მარი, Nikoloz Iak'obis dze Mari; 6 January 1865 [O.S....
recreation of the celebrated cathedral of Zvartnots at Vagharshapat. NikolaiMarr uncovered the foundations of this remarkable building in 1905 and 1906...
influenced the use of the term Japhetic in the linguistic theories of NikolaiMarr (see below). During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Biblical statement...
Historical-Archaeological Institute, founded in Tbilisi on July 1, 1917, with NikolaiMarr as its initiator and Ekvtime Takaishvili and Giorgi Chubinashvili as...
decision: to leave Alexander Karpinsky as president, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, NikolaiMarr, and Vladimir Komarov as vice-presidents, and Vyacheslav Volgin as the...
professor, NikolaiMarr, to Russian Armenia, where he took part in excavations of the ruins of the medieval Armenian capital of Ani. Marr pushed his pupil...
of Stalin's rule, the dominant figure in Soviet linguistics was Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr, who argued that language is a class construction and that language...
minority languages in the USSR, based on the theory of Soviet linguist NikolaiMarr postulating the convergence to a single world language, expected to be...
Avenue. It was originally, from 1935 to 1957 named Niko Marr Street after the orientalist Nicholas Marr. "Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue". Tbilisi Street Name Database...
Isfahan in modern Iran.[unreliable source?] In 1912 the archaeologist NikolaiMarr announced the discovery in 1910 of a tombstone in the village of Yeghegis...
included in the work. After finishing the work, he gave the book to the NikolaiMarr Institute of Language, History and Material Culture, but due to the onset...
used. A 75-letter Latin script devised by a Russian/Georgian linguist NikolaiMarr lasted for 2 years 1926–1928 (during the Latinization campaign). The...
work of the famous linguist, historian, archaeologist and ethnographer NikolaiMarr "Talysh (on the issue of their national self-determination)" in 1922...
University of Berlin. In 1902, he accompanied his mentor, Academician NikolaiMarr, to Mount Sinai where they studied medieval Georgian manuscripts (such...
script for the Abkhaz language devised by a Russian/Georgian linguist NikolaiMarr that lasted for 2 years 1926–1928 (during the Latinisation campaign)...
companies in historical capital of Ani under the direction of the scholar NikolaiMarr. Later, and especially in the 20th century, the study of Armenian medieval...
Georgian literature. Mikhail Sabinin (1845–1900), monk and historian NikolaiMarr (1864–1934), historian and linguist; known for the pseudo-scientific...
Arabic versions have been published along with translations into Latin. NikolaiMarr translated the Georgian text into Russian. He argued that the Georgian...
stadiality, at one time he was under the influence of "the new teaching of NikolaiMarr on language." In 1930, he published the polemical work "For a Marxist...
Petersburg, whose first annotated description was given by the orientalist NikolaiMarr at the request of Vladimir Minorsky in 1923. A detailed annotated description...
create a Marxist ethnography was also critical of some of the theories of NikolaiMarr which were emposed on Soviet sciences. He was finally arrested during...
reported by Matthew of Edessa, has been questioned by modern scholars, but NikolaiMarr, who excavated the site, noted that "most of the people probably lived...
could last for hours, even days, at a time. According to Gurian linguist NikolaiMarr, while the peasants took an active role in the meetings, the workers...
disclosure through catalogues etc. In January 1927 he was invited by NikolaiMarr to the Leningrad Public Library as a consultant on the works of the Eastern...
Bogoraz, the historian and philologist Evgeny Kagarov, and the linguist NikolaiMarr, who was at that time one of the most influential figures in Soviet academia...