Ivan Minayev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ivan Minayev

Russian Indologist

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1840

Place of Birth: Tambov, Tambov Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jun-1890

Profession: Indologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ivan Pavlovich Minayev or Minayeff (???? ???????? ??????; 21 October 1840 – 13 June 1890) was the first Russian Indologist whose disciples included Serge Oldenburg, F.
Th.
Stcherbatsky, and Dmitry Kudryavsky. As a student of Vasily Vasiliev at the University of Saint Petersburg he developed an interest in Pali literature and went abroad to prepare a catalogue of Pali manuscripts at the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale (still unpublished).
His Russian-language Pali grammar (1872) was soon translated into French (1874) and English (1882).Minayev's magnum opus, Buddhism: Untersuchungen und Materialien, was printed in 1887.
"Minaev was almost the first European orientalist...
to feel that the study of Buddhism and Pali was a must for the proper understanding of ancient Indian history and society".As a member of the Russian Geographical Society he travelled in India and Burma and Nepal in 1874—75, 1880, and 1885—86.
His travel journals were published in English in 1958 and 1970.