Vasily Radlov

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Vasily Radlov
Radlov in 1917
Born	(1837-01-17)January 17, 1837 Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	May 12, 1918(1918-05-12) (aged 81) Petrograd, Russian SFSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Occupation	Turkologist

Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ра́длов; 17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1837 in Berlin – 12 May 1918 in Petrograd) was a German-Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of Turkic peoples. According to Turkologist Johan Vandewalle, Radlov knew all of the Turkic languages and dialects as well as German, French, Russian, Greek, Latin, Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew.^{[citation needed]}