Author: BICHURIN, NIKITA YAKOFVLEVICH (also called HYACINTH). Borg, Carl Friedrich von der. (transl.).
Title: Denkwürdigkeiten über die Mongolei Von dem Mönch Hyakinth. Aus dem Russischen u¨bersetzt von Karl Friedrich von der Borg.
Description: Berlin, G. Reimer, 1832. [Reprint Whitefish, Kessinger Publishing, 2010]. XIV,425 pp. 5 b./w. plts. Softcover. A somewhat simpler reprint of this scarce work. The map of Mongolia is not reproduced in this edition. - - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (29 August 1777 - 11 May 1853, St. Petersburg), better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth (sometimes rendered as Joacinth), or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology. He translated many works in Chinese into Russian which were then translated into other European languages.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Mongolia Etnografie Azië Mongolië