Persona

Turaev, Boris Alexandrovitch

• Touraeff, Boris Alexandrovitch; Touraeff, Boris Aleksandrovich; Turaev, Boris Aleksandrovich

Russian Egyptologist; he was born in Novogrudok, 24 July/5 August 1868, son of Alexander T.; he studied first in St. Petersburg under Golenischeff, graduating 1891, and later under Erman in Berlin, 1893-5 and Maspero in Paris; on returning to Russia, he was appointed private lecturer in Ancient History in the University of St. Petersburg, 1896, Associate Professor, 1904, Professor, 1911; he was made Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities in the Museum of Moscow when it acquired the Golenischeff Collection, 1912; in 1918 he was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; he had assembled a large private collection of antiquities which it was his intention to bequeath to Moscow Museum; he published Bog Tot, 1898; Istoriya Drevnego Vostoka, 1911; Opisanie Egipetskago sobraniya I. Statui i statuétki golenishchevskago sobraniya, 4º 1917; Drevnei egipetskaya literature, 1920; posth. Papyrus Prachov, sobraniya B.A. Turaeva, fol., 1927; also articles in JEA, ZÄS_, and other journals; he died in Petrograd, 23 July 1920.

• Who Was Who in Egyptology (5th ed. 2019), 463 fig. (portrait).