Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
Nicholas Poppe papers, 1932-1985
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Poppe, Nicholas N., 1897-1991
- Title
- Nicholas Poppe papers
- Dates
- 1932-1985 (inclusive)19321985
- Quantity
- 4.97 cubic feet (7 boxes and 1 vertical file)
- Collection Number
- 4477
- Summary
- Papers of a linguist and Professor at the University of Washington's Far East and Russian Institute
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
Open to all users.
- Languages
- English, Russian, German, Turkish, Mongolian
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Nicholas N. Poppe (also sometimes written Nikolaus, 1897-1991) was a linguist and Professor at the Far East and Russian Institute at the University of Washington from 1949 to his retirement in 1968. Poppe was born in Shandong, China in 1897 when his father was stationed as a consular officer in the Russian diplomatic service. He graduated from the Mongolian Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Petrograd University in 1921. He taught at the University of Leningrad, the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and in 1933 was elected as the youngest associate member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
During the Second World War, Poppe was living in the Caucasus where he briefly served as a translator for the local populations and German forces. In 1943 Poppe and his family moved to Berlin. There Poppe began working with the Wannsee Institute, a research institute that studied the politics and economics of the Soviet Union.
In 1949 he emigrated to the United States, where he joined the faculty of the Far East and Russian Institute at the University of Washington. He continued teaching there up to his retirement in 1968. His research focused on studies of the Altaic language family, especially Khalkha-Mongolian and Buryat-Mongolian, and on studies of the folklore of these and related languages. He wrote manuals and grammars of written and colloquial Khalkha-Mongolian and Buriat-Mongolian, Yakut, the Alar dialect, and Bashkir. His publications in the realm of Mongolian oral literature include eleven volumes of Mongolian epics, collections of Mongolian sayings, songs, and fairy tales, and Mongolian versions of works in Sanskrit.
Poppe died on 8 August 1991 in Seattle at the age of 94.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Poppe
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Bibliography, awards and certificates, correspondence, photograph albums, postcard albums, and artwork.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into 3 accessions.
- Accession No. 4477-001, Nicholas Poppe papers, 1932-1982
- Accession No. 4477-002, Nicholas Poppe papers, approximately 1947-1985
- Accession No. 4477-003, Nicholas Poppe papers, 1977 February 14
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Accession No. 4477-001: Nicholas Poppe papers, 1932-1982Return to Top
Scope and Content: Bibliography, awards and certificates from the career of a linguist and Professor at the University of Washington's Far East and Russian Institute.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Nicholas Poppe via Gary Lundell, 1991-11-11
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Accession | ||
| 1 | 4477-001 | Parerga, Poppe bibliography
Scope and Content: Compiled by the Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area
Studies, University of Washington for Poppe's eightieth birthday
|
1977 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Letter
Scope and Content: Letter from Charles Bawden, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London
|
1978 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Finnish Oriental Society (Societas Orientalis Fennica)
certificate |
1951 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Finnish Academy of Science and Letters letter and
certificate |
1977 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Institute for the Study of the USSR
certificate |
1969 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | The British Academy letters
Scope and Content: Letters regarding his election to Corresponding Fellow of the
British Academy
|
1978 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Royal Asiatic Society letter |
1956 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Turkish Language Association certificate |
1957 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Turkish Language Association certificate |
1978 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | University of Washington Retirement
certificate
Scope and Content: Signed by Charles Odegaard
|
1968 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | British Academy List of Fellows
Scope and Content: Poppe listed on page 31
|
1982 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Russian certificate |
approximately 1932 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Finno-Ugrian Society certificate |
1963 |
| 1 | 4477-001 | Calligraphy
Scope and Content: Possibly Mongolian calligraphy
|
undated |
| 2 | 4477-001 | Turkish Language Society certificate
Scope and Content: Certificate awarded to Poppe commemorating the 50th anniversary
of the Turkish Republic. Includes copies of awards with translations.
|
1973 |
| 2 | 4477-001 | Societas Uralo-Altaica certificate |
1952 |
| 2 | 4477-001 | University of Bonn Honorary Doctorate |
1968 |
| 2 | 4477-001 | Academia Scientiarum et Litterarum Moguntina
certificate |
1957 |
| 2 | 4477-001 | German Oriental Society (Deutsche Morgenländische
Gesellschaft) certificate |
1968 |
| 2 | 4477-001 | Signed paper
Scope and Content: Paper with Nicholas Poppe's name in calligraphy with a series of
signatures underneath
|
undated |
Accession No. 4477-002: Nicholas Poppe papers, approximately 1947-1985Return to Top
Scope and Content: Correspondence, photo albums, postcard albums, photographs and artwork from a linguist and Professor of the Far East and Russia.
Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.
Restrictions on Use: Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.
Acquisition Info: estate of Ilse Cirtautas via Arista Cirtautas
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Accession | ||
| 1 | 4477-002 | Christmas Cards |
approximately 1985 |
| 1 | 4477-002 | Immigration Correspondence
Scope and Content: Includes letter from the Headquarters of European Command
|
1949 |
| 1 | 4477-002 | Correspondence |
1949-1963 |
| 1 | 4477-002 | Correspondence by Country
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence from
|
1949-1985 |
| 1 | 4477-002 | Byambyn Rinchen Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: Mongolian writer, translator, and linguist.
|
approximately 1950s |
| 1 | 4477-002 | Dr. Julius Mark Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: Estonian linguist of Finno-Uralic languages.
|
approximately 1950s |
| 1 | 4477-002 | Karl Heinrich Menges Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: German linguist whose work focused on the Altaic hypothesis.
|
approximately 1950s |
| 2 | 4477-002 | Chumba Balinov Correspondence |
approximately 1950s |
| 2 | 4477-002 | Boris Shnitnikoff Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: Professor at the Georgetown Institute of Languages and
Linguistics.
|
1956-1960 |
| 2 | 4477-002 | Valentin Riasanovsky Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: Father of Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, professor of Russian
history.
|
1951-1952 |
| 2 | 4477-002 | Louis Schram Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: Belgian missionary and anthropologist in China.
|
approximately 1950s |
| 2 | 4477-002 | Dr. Udo Posch Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: Austrian Turcologist and Tibetologist who briefly taught at the
University of Washington.
|
approximately 1950s |
| 2 | 4477-002 | Ferdinand D. Lessing Correspondence
Biographical/Historical Note: German Sinologist and Central Asian scholar in the United
States.
|
1949-1959 |
| 3 | 4477-002 | Japan Postcard Album |
approximately 1960s |
| 3 | 4477-002 | West Germany Picture Album |
approximately 1950s-1960s |
| 3 | 4477-002 | Seattle Postcard Album |
approximately 1960s |
| 3 | 4477-002 | Seattle and Washington State Postcard Album |
approximately 1950s |
| 3 | 4477-002 | United States Postcard Album |
approximately 1950s |
| 3 | 4477-002 | Art and Photographs
General Notes: Removed from frames
|
undated |
| 4 | 4477-002 | West Germany Historic Images Album |
approximately 1950s-1960s |
| 4 | 4477-002 | Alaska Postcard and Photograph Album |
1973 |
| 4 | 4477-002 | Family Greeting Cards Album |
approximately 1947-1950s |
| 4 | 4477-002 | Sweden and Finland Postcard and Photograph
Album
Scope and Content: Includes Lund, Sweden
|
1976 |
| 4 | 4477-002 | Professional Friends and Colleagues Photograph
Album |
approximately 1950s-1960s |
| 5 | 4477-002 | London and Dublin Postcard and Photograph
Album |
1956-1960 |
| 5 | 4477-002 | Hamburg and Göttingen Postcard and Photograph
Album |
approximately 1950s-1960s |
| 5 | 4477-002 | Finland Postcard and Photograph Album |
1970 |
| 5 | 4477-002 | Photograph Album |
1982 |
Accession No. 4477-003: Nicholas Poppe papers, 1977 February 14Return to Top
Scope and Content: One letter from Nicholas Poppe to Prof. Keith Scott at the University of Saskatchewan, regarding contribution of an article to the Canada-Mongolia Review.
Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.
Restrictions on Use: Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.
Acquisition Info: Keith Scott
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)
Other Creators
-
Personal Names
- Poppe, Nicholas N., 1897-1991 (creator)
Corporate Names
- University of Washington. University Archives
