Nicholas Poppe
Nicholas Poppe | |
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| Born | Nikolay Nikolayevich Poppe 8 August 1897 Yantai, Shandong, China |
| Died | 8 June 1991 (aged 93) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Petrograd University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Main interests | |
Nicholas Poppe (Russian: Николай Николаевич Поппе, romanized: Nikolay Nikolayevich Poppe; 8 August 1897 – 8 June 1991) was a Russian linguist and Nazi collaborator. He is also known as Nikolaus Poppe, with his first name in its German form. He is often cited as N.N. Poppe in academic publications.
Poppe was a leading specialist in the Mongolic languages and the hypothetical (and controversial) Altaic language family to which the Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic languages are supposed to belong. Poppe was open-minded toward the inclusion of Korean in Altaic, but regarded the evidence for the inclusion of Korean as weaker than that for the inclusion of Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic.