Background
BERTEL’South, Yevgeniy was born on December 25, 1890 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a physician.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of science
BERTEL’South, Yevgeniy was born on December 25, 1890 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a physician.
1914 graduate Law Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1920 graduate Oriental Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Saint St. Petersburg University. Also studied at Petrograd Conservatory:.
1920-1930 associate, Asian Museum Russian (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) Academy of Sciences. From 1921 lecturer, from 1928 professor, Institute of Living Oriented Languages, Leningrad University. From 1932 also head, History and Language Section, Tadzh Base, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Specialized in languages and lit of Centr Asia, Azer, Persia and Afghanistan. Dean of Soviet Iranian studies. Compiled grammars of Persian and Pashto.
Wrote studies of Persian, Tadzh, Uzbek, Turkm and Azer literature Did translations from Sanskrit, Avestan, Arabic, Persian, Pahlavi, Pashto, Turkish, Tajiki, et cetera Supervised compilation of critical ed of Nizami’s poems The Sharaf-Nama and Igbal-Nama and Firdausi’s Shah-Nama (Book of Kings), et cetera
From 1951 Honorary member, Turkm Academy of Sciences. From 1956 Honorary member, Uzbek Academy of Sciences. From 1944 correspondent member, Iranian Academy of Sciences.
From 1955 correspondent member, Arabic Academy of Sciences, Damascus.