And g Georges biography
At the end of the school, he chose medicine with his specialty and, to continue education, went to Sweden to the University of Uppsansal. At the end of the course of sciences, I. Georgi founded a pharmacy in a small town of Stendhal in Germany and began to successfully engage in pharmacology. Having learned about the beginning of the works of academic physical and geographical expeditions-GG.
Georges turned to the Russian Academy of Sciences with a proposal of his services. Falk, who headed one of the three detachments of the Orenburg expedition. Member of the Second Academic Exped. After Kazakhstan, he examined the vast areas of Siberia and the Far East. Empress Catherine II was satisfied with the results - Georges granted a gold medal and a monetary prize to the Chervonets.
His book "Description of all in the Russian state of the inhabitants of the residents, also their worldly rites, verdies, dwellings, clothes, and other membranes" was published in four parts in German and in three - in Russian in gave a relatively faithful picture of the resettlement and the number of younger and middle zhuzes, their tribal structure, described in detail by the cattle -breeding economy of Kazakhs, its productivity, and his productivity, and his productiveness of the beginnings.
Karakolevo, hunting, households and crafts, labor activities of men and women. He described dwellings, clothes, traditional nutrition. To George, not a single author gave such a complete and versatile ethnographer. During the expedition of GG. Georges first collected and summarized the data on the spiritual culture of the peoples of the Volga and Urals, carefully describing the pantheon of pagan deities.
He also first collected and published information about shamans, calling the shamanism of one of the "ancient Ver", which underlies Lamaism and Hinduism, which substantiated the very possibility of comparing shamanism with world religions. The study of Georges consists of brief, compressed presentation, essays on every people. Such an essay includes information about the name of the people, the area of their resettlement, some historical data, information about the number, language, and economic structure.
Often, traditional male and female costumes are described in detail, there is information about religious rites, diseases. With rare exceptions, the scientist necessarily gives his own or recorded from the words of other assessments of the mental characteristics of peoples. His name of the dahlias of St. Mexico are named after him.
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