Philip Johan von Strahlenberg

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Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (born 1676 in Stralsund, died 1747 in Getinge). Philip Johan Tabbert. Swedish officer and geographer of German origin who influenced the cartography of Russia. The author of one of the concepts of the European-Asian border. Life

He joined the Swedish army in 1694 and in 1703 promoted to captain. Four years later, he was renamed von Strahlenberg.

He participated in the Third Northern War, where he was captured by the victorious Russian forces during the Battle of Poltava in 1709. As a prisoner of war he was sent to Tobolska, where he lived in the years 1711-1721. At that time he dealt with the geography of Siberia and the anthropology, languages ​​and customs of the peoples there. Upon his return to Stockholm in 1730, he published his book Das Nord-und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (The North and East of Europe and Asia) containing the results of his research. The publication was warmly received and translated into English, French and Spanish.

One of the parts mentioned above. The book was a new map of Russia created by Strahlenberg and Johann Anton von Matérn. Strahlenberg also proposed a new version of the border between Europe and Asia, which runs from the north to the south of the Urals, then west, along the smaller mountain range and the hilly west bank of the Volga, to 49 degrees latitude and along the Don River to the Black Sea. . The book also includes information on the languages ​​and customs of the Tatars, Yakutas, Chuvashs, Crimean Tatars, Uzbekistan, Bashkir, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.

Philip Johan von Strahlenberg also created the Kalmuck-German dictionary on the basis of which the French-Kalmy and Anglo-Kalmuck dictionaries were created.

In his work he also described how Siberian shamans used red toadstools in rituals.

In later years of his life, Strahlenberg wrote a two-part scholarly dissertation on the history of Russia, which was published in France in 1757 as Description Historique de l'Empire Russien. Asteroid (15766) Strahlenberg is named in his honor.

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