Olderogge D.A., (1903-1987), ethnographer

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OLDEROGGE Dmitry Alexeevich (1903-1987, Leningrad), ethnographer, Associate of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1960). He was brought to St. Petersburg in the age of three. After graduating from the faculty of social sciences of State Leningrad University in 1925, he took on the position of a research fellow of the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, appointed head of the African Department of the institute in 1929. He held this post until 1986, combining it with teaching at Leningrad State University (becoming a professor of the university in 1949, promoted to head of the chair of African studies of the Oriental faculty in 1946) and taught at other higher educational establishments in the city. His major works dwell on the issues of ethnography, history, languages and culture of nations of Africa. He lived at 26 Khalturina Street (present-day Millionnaya Street)/ 25 Moika River Embankment from 1929 to 1955, over the next two years he resided at 169-171 Stalina Avenue (present-day Moskovsky Avenue), from 1957 to 1970 lived at 47 Kirovsky Avenue (present-day Kamennoostrovsky Avenue) and spent the last seventeen years of his life at 14 Mechnikova Avenue. He was buried at Bogoslovskoe cemetery.

References: Ethnologica Africana: [Сб. ст.]: Памяти Д. А. Ольдерогге. М., 2002; Д. А. Ольдерогге в письмах и воспоминаниях. СПб., 2003.

A. A. Kononov. Olderogge Dmitry Alexeevich
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
Mechnikova Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Millionnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Moika River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 25
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 169
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 171
Ethnologica Africana: [Сб. ст.]: Памяти Д.А. Ольдерогге. М., 2002
Д.А. Ольдерогге в письмах и воспоминаниях. СПб., 2003 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery