See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

FRANZ ANTON See also:

• FRANZ ANTON SCHIEFNER (1817-1879)

SCHIEFNER (1817-1879)  , See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian linguist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• REVAL, or REVEL (Russ. Revel, formerly Kolyvan; Esthonian, Tallina and Tannilin)

Reval, in See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia, on the 18th of See also:

• JULY

July 1817: His See also:

• FATHER

father was a See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant who had emigrated from Bohemia . He was educated first at the Reval See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar school, matriculated at St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg as a See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law student in 1836, and subsequently devoted himself at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, from 184o to 1842, exclusively to Eastern See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . On his return to St Petersburg in 1843 he was employed in teaching the See also:

• CLASSICS

classics in the First Grammar School, and soon afterwards received a See also:

• POST

post in the Imperial See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, where in 1852 the cultivation of the Tibetan See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and literature was assigned to him as his See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• FUNCTION

function . Simultaneously he held from . 186o to 1873 the professorship of classical languages in the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic theological See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary . From 1854 till his See also:

• DEATH

death he was an extraordinary member of the Imperial Academy . He visited See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England three times for purposes of See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research—in 1863, 1867 and 1878 . He died on the 16th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1879 . See also:

• SCHIEFNER, FRANZ ANTON (1817-1879)

Schiefner made his See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark in See also:

• LITERARY

literary research in three directions . First, he contributed to the See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs and Bulletin of the St Petersburg Academy, and brought out independently a number of valuable articles and larger publications on the language and literature of See also:

• TIBET, or THIBET

Tibet . He possessed also a remarkable acquaintance with Mongolian, and when death overtook him had just finished a revision of the New Testament in that language with which the See also:

• BRITISH

British and See also:

• FOREIGN

Foreign See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible Society had entrusted him . Further, he was one of the greatest authorities on the See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology and See also:

• ETHNOLOGY

ethnology of the Finnic tribes .

He edited and translated the See also:

• GREAT

great Finnic epic Kalevala; he arranged, completed and brought out in twelve volumes the literary remains of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• CASTREN, MATTHIAS ALEXANDER (1813-1853)

Castren, bearing on the languages of the Samoyedic tribes, the Koibal, Karagass, Tungusian, Buryat, Ostiak and Kottic See also:

• TONGUES, GIFT OF, or GLOSSOLALIA (yXwova, tongue, aXeiv, speak)

tongues, and prepared several valuable papers on Finnic See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology for the Imperial Academy . In the third See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, he made himself the exponent of investigations into the languages of the See also:

• CAUCASUS

Caucasus, which his lucid analyses placed within reach of See also:

• EUROPEAN

European philologists . Thus he gave a full See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis of the Tush language, and in See also:

• QUICK

quick See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession, from See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

Baron P . Uslar's investigations, comprehensive papers on the Awar, Ude, Abkhasian, Tchetchenz, Kasi-Kumuk, Hurkanian and Kiirinian languages . He had also mastered Ossetic, and brought out a number of See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations from that language, several of them accompanied by the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text .