Turkologist

List of Turkologists

• Abramzon, S. M. (1905–1977) (ethnographer)
• Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1605–1664) (historian, Turkologist)
• Adamovic M. (Uralic languages, Turkologist)
• Akhatov G. Kh. (1927–1986) (Professor of Philology, Turkologist, Linguist, Orientalist)
• Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871–1942) (Orientalist, Historian, Linguist, Philologist, Ethnographer
• Ahinjanov S. M. (1939–1991) (archeologist, historian, Turkologist)
• Akishev, K. A. (1924–2003) (archeologist, historian, investigated Issyk Kurgan)
• Altheim, F. (1898–1976) (historian)
• Amanjolov, A. S. (1934-2012) (runiform writing)
• Anokhin, A. V. (1867–1931) (Turkologist, ethnographer, ancient musical arts)
• Aristov, N. A. (1847–1903) (Orientalist)
• Artamonov, M. (1898–1972) (Archaeologist, Turkologist, historian, Khazar studies)
• Asmussen, J. P. (1928–2002), (Orientalist, Manichaeism historian)
• Bacot, J. (1877–1965) (Orientalist)
• Baichorov S. Ya. (Turkologist, philologist, runiform writing)
• Bailey, H. W. (1899–1996) (Orientalist)
• Bang W. (Bang Kaup J. W., J. Kaup) (1869–1934) (Turkologist, linguist)
• Barfield T. J. (history, anthropology, and social theory)
• Bartold, W. W. (1869–1930) (Orientalist)
• Baskakov, N. A. (1905–1995) (Turkologist, linguist, ethnologist)
• Batmanov I. A. (Turkologist, philologist, runiform writing)
• Bazin Louis (1920-2011) (Sinologist, orientalist)
• Beckwith, C. (Uralic and Altaic Studies)
• Benzing J. (1913–2001) (Turkic and northern Eurasia languages)
• Bichurin, N. Ya. (1777–1853) (Sinologist, orientalist)
• Bidjiev Kh. Kh.-M. (1939–1999) (archeologist, Turkologist)
• Bosworth, C. E. (1928-2015) (Orientalist, Arabist)
• Bretschneider, E. (1833–1901) (Sinologist)
• Budberg, P. A. (Boodberg) (1903–1972) (Sinologist, orientalist)
• Çağatay, Saadet (1907-1989)
• Castrén, M. A. (1813–1852)
• Chavannes, E. (1865–1918) (Sinologist)
• Chia-sheng, Feng (Jiasheng, Fen Tszia-shen, C. S. Feng)
• Csirkés, Ferenc Péter (Orientalist)
• Clauson, G. (1891–1974) (Orientalist, Turkish language)
• Čaušević, Ekrem (Turkologist)
• de Guignes, Joseph (1721–1800) (Orientalist)
• Dal, Vladimir (1801–1872, Russian language lexicographer)
• Dilaçar, Agop (1895–1979) (linguist)
• Doblhofer E. (Historical philology,)
• Doerfer, G. (1920–2003) (Turkologist)
• Dolgih B. O. (1904–1971) (historian, ethnographer-Sibirologist)
• Donner, O. (1835–1909) (linguist)
• Drompp M. R. (Orientalist, Turkologist)
• Dybo, A. V. (Philologist, Turkologist, comparative linguist)
• Eberhard Wolfram (1909–1988) (Sinologist, Philologist, Turkologist)
• Erdal Marcel (linguist)
• Eren, H. (1919–2007) (linguist, Turkologist, Hungarologist )
• Fedorov-Davydov, G. A. (1931–2000) (archeologist)
• Frye, R. N. (1920-2014) (philologist, historian)
• von Gabain, A. (1901–1993) (Turkologist, Sinologist, linguist, art historian)
• Gasratjan, M. A. (1924–2007) (historian, Turkologist, Kurdologist)
• Geng Shimin 耿世民 (Turkologist, Uighurologist, Manichaeanism, linguist, archeologist, historian)
• Gibbon, E. (1737–1794) (historian)
• Giraud, M. R. (1904–1968) (philologist, historian)
• Gökalp, Z. (1886–1924) (Sociologist)
• Golden, P. (historian)
• Golubovsky P. V. (1857–1907) (historian)
• de Groot, J. J. M. (1854–1921) (Sinologist)
• Grousset, R. (1885–1952)
• Gumilev, L. (Arslan) (1912–1992)
• Halasi-Kun Tibor (1914–1991) (Turkologist)
• Gustav Haloun (1898–1951)
• Hamilton, J. R. (linguist, Uighur and Chigil studies)
• Harmatta, J. (1917–2004) (linguist)
• Hashimoto Mantaro (1932－1987) (linguist, philologist, Sinologist; the influence of Altaic languages on Mandarin Chinese)
• Hazai, György (Turkologist, linguist)
• Heissig, W. (1913–2005) (Mongolist)
• Henning, W. B. (1908–1967)
• von Herberstein, S. (Siegmund, Sigismund, Freiherr von Herberstein, Gerbershtein) (1486–1566) (historian, writer, diplomat)
• Hirth, F. (1845–1927) (Sinologist)
• Howorth, H. H. (1842–1923) (archeologist, historian)
• Hulsewe, A. F. P. (1910–1993) (Sinologist)
• Ismagulov, Orazak (anthropologist)
• Jalairi Kadir Galy (Djalairi, Kadyrali, Kadyr Ali, Kydyrgali) (ca 1620) (historian)
• Jankowski Henryk (turkologist)
• Jarring, G. (1907–2002) (Turkologist)
• Jdanko, T. (Zhdanko) (ethnographer)
• Johanson, L. (Turkologist)
• Kantemir, D. (Cantemir) (1673–1723) (historian, linguist, ethnographer)
• Khalikov, A. Kh. (1929–1994) (archeologist, historian, Turkologist)
• Khazanov, A. (social anthropologist and ethnologist)
• Kitsikis, Dimitri (1935-2021) (political science)
• Klaproth, J. (1783–1835), (Orientalist, Linguist, Historian, Ethnographer)
• Köprülü, M. F. (Koprulu) (1890–1966)
• Korkmaz, Zeynep (1921-2025) (Dialectologist)
• Kormushin, I. V. (Turkologist, philologist, runiform writing)
• Kotwicz, W. (1872–1944) (Orientalist)
• Kradin, N. N. (anthropologist, archaeologist)
• Küner, N. V. (1877–1955) (17-languages polyglot, Turkologist)
• Kurat, A. N. (historian) (1903–1971)
• Kvaerne, P. (Tibetology, Religions)
• Kyzlasov, I. L. (Turkologist, runiform writing)
• Lagashov, B. R. (Caucasology, philology)
• Laude-Cirtautas, Ilse (Turkology)
• von Le Coq, A. (1860–1930) (archaeologist, explorer)
• Liu Mau-tsai (Liu Guan-ying) (Sinologist, Turkologist)
• Lubotsky, A. (philologist)
• Maenchen-Helfen, O. J. (1894–1969) (academic, sinologist, historian, author, and traveler)
• Malov, S. E. (1880–1957) (Orientalist, runiform writing)
• Marquart, J. (Markwart) (1864–1930)
• McGovern W. M. (1897–1964) (Orientalist)
• Mélikoff, Irène (1917-2009)
• Ménage, V. L. (1920–2015) (British turkologist, historian)
• Mészáros, Gyula (1883–1957) (Hungarian ethnographer, Orientalist, Turkologist)
• Minorsky, V. F. (1877–1966) (Orientalist)
• Moravcsik, Gyula (1892–1972) (Byzantinology)
• Mukhamadiev, A. (Numismatist, orientalist, philologist)
• Müller, G. F. (Miller) (1705–83) (father of ethnography)
• Munkacsi, B. (1860–1937) (linguist)
• Nadelyaev, V. M. (Turkologist, philologist, runiform writing)
• Nasilov, D. M. (Turkologist, philologist)
• Németh, Gyula (1890–1976) (Turkologist, linguist)
• Ogel, B. (1923–1989) (Philology)
• Pallas, P. S. (1741–1811) (naturalist, ethnographer)
• Pelliot, P. (1878–1945) (Sinologist)
• Pletneva, S. A. (archeologist)
• Podolak, Barbara (Turkologist, linguist)
• Polivanov, E. D. (1891–1938) (Founder of Altaistics, theorist in linguistics, Orientalist, polyglot) Поливанов, Евгений Дмитриевич(in Russian)
• Poppe, N. N. (1897–1991) (linguist-Altaist)
• Potanin, G. N. (1835–1920) (Explorer, historian)
• Potapov, L. P. (1905–2000) (Turkologist, ethnographer, ethnologist)
• Potocki, Yan (or Jan) (1761–1815) (ethnologist, linguist, historian)
• Poucha, P. (Central Asian philology)
• Puech, H.-C. (linguist)
• Radloff, W. (1837–1918)
• Ramstedt, G. H. (1873–1950) (Altaic languages)
• Räsänen, Martti (Ryasyanen, M.)
• Rasonyi, L. (1899–1984) (Turkologist)
• Rasovsky, D. A. (historian)
• Rémi-Giraud, S. (linguist)
• William of Rubruck (Dutch: Willem van Rubroeck, Latin: Gulielmus de Rubruquis) (traveller, ca. 1248–1252)
• Rochrig, F. L. O. (Roehrig) (1819–1908) (Orientalist, Turkologist, Native American linguist)
• Rossi, Ettore (1884–1955) (Turkologist, Arabist, Iranist, historian and linguist)
• Samoilovich, A. N. (1880–1938, killed in Stalinist repressions) (Orientalist, Turkologist)
• Samolin, W. (1911–1972?) (Orientalist)
• Senigova, T. N. (Fine Arts, Turkologist)
• Sergi Jikia (1898–1993) (Historian and orientalist, founder of the Turkology in Georgia)
• Seydakmatov, K. (Turkologist, runiform writing)
• Shcherbak, A. M. (1926–2008) (Turkologist, runiform writing)
• Siemieniec-Gołaś, Ewa (Turkologist, linguist)
• Smirnova, O. I. (numismatist)
• Stachowski, Marek (linguist, etymologist)
• Stachowski, St. (linguist)
• Starostin, S. (1953–2005) (linguist, Altaic languages hypothesis)
• von Strahlenberg, P. J. (Philip Johan Tabbert) (1676–1747)
• Tekin, Talât (1927-2015) (Altaic languages)
• Tenishev, E. R. (1921–2004) (linguist, Central Asian philology)
• von Tiesenhausen, W. (Russian: Tizengauzen, V.G.) (1825–1902) (Orientalist, numismatist, archeologist)
• Tietze, Andreas (1914–2003; Turkologist)
• Thomsen, Vilhelm (1842–1927) (Danish linguist, decipherer of the Orkhon inscriptions)
• Togan, Zeki Velidi (1890–1970) (historian, Turkologist, leader of liberation movement)
• Sergey Tolstov (1907–1976) (archeologist)
• Tremblay, X. (philology)
• Vainberg, B. I. (archeologist, numismatist)
• Vaissière, Étienne de la (Orientalist, philologist)
• Valihanov, Chokan (Shokan, Chokan Chingisovich) (1835–1865) (Turkologist, ethnographer, historian)
• Vambery, A. (1832–1913)
• Vandewalle, Johan
• Vasiliev, D. D. (Türkic runiform script)
• Velikhanly, N. M (Velikhanova) (Orientalist)
• Velyaminov-Zernov, V. V. (1830–1904) (Turkologist)
• Wang Guowei (王国维, 1877–1927) (Sinologist, historian, philologist)
• Wikander, S. (1908–1983) (Orientalist, philologist, Native American linguist) Stig Wikander (sv)
• Wittfogel, K. A. (1896–1988) (Sinologist, historian)
• Yadrintsev, N.V. (1842–1894) (archeologist, Turkologist, explorer)
• Yudin, V. P. (1928–1983) (Orientalist, historian, and philologist)
• Zajączkowski, Ananiasz (1903–1970) (Turkologist)
• Zakiev, M. (1928-2023) (Philologist)
• Zehren, E. (Orientalist, archeologist)
• Vásáry, István (Turkologist, historian)
• Zhirinovsky, V. V. (1946-2022) (Turkologist, philologist, politician)
• Zieme, P. W. H. (Turkologist, linguist)
• Zuev, Yu. (1932–2006) (Sinologist)