Jalil Keyekbaev

Jalil Keyekbaev
Born	(1911-10-25)October 25, 1911 Karan-Yelga, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	March 19, 1968(1968-03-19) (aged 56) Ufa, Bashkortostan, USSR
Awards	Order of Lenin (1967) Order Badge of Honor (1961)
Academic background
Alma mater	Moscow State Linguistic University
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Turcology
Institutions	Bashkir State University (Ufa)

Jalil Giniyatovich Keyekbaev (Bashkir: Keyekbayev Zhaelil Giniaet uly; October 25, 1911, Karan-Yelga, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russian Empire – March 19 1968, Ufa, Soviet Union) was a Bashkir linguist, Turkologist, doctor of philological sciences (1960), professor (1961), organizer of science and higher education, prominent Bashkir writer, member of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Writers' Union. The founder of Bashkir linguistics and the founder of the modern Bashkir school of Ural–Altaic languages..

Excellence in public education of the RSFSR (1967), Honored Worker of Science of the BASSR (1961).

Biography

Jalil Keyekbaev was born in 1911 to a peasant family in the village of Karan-Yelga in the Ufa Governorate. His father, Giniyatulla, graduated from the madrasah (school) in the village of Utyakovo, where he was taught by the enlightener Khabibnazar Utyaki. Keyekbaev's mother was called Garifa (daughter of Murzakai).

He studied at Makarovskaya Secondary School in the village of Makarovo. From 1929–1932 he studied at the pedagogical college in Ufa. During these years, he began to print his poems under the pseudonym Zhalil Tabyn (by the name of his tribe).

He graduated from the Faculty of Germanic Philology of the First Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1937), then worked as a German teacher for one year at Roshalsky secondary school in the Moscow Region. In 1938, he began working at the Ufa Institute of Foreign Languages (deputy director for academic affairs, from January 1941 for academic and scientific work). During World War II, he temporarily left for his native district due to the need to accommodate evacuated teachers in the city of Ufa. IN 1942, he served as director of the Saitbabinskaya secondary school of the Gafuri District.

He taught foreign languages in various secondary schools and higher educational institutions of the republic. From 1943–1944, he was the chief editor of a Bashkir book publishing house. From 1944–1953, he worked at the Ufa Aviation Institute (until 1946 and after 1948, he was head of the Department of Foreign Languages). In 1948, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Orthoepy of the Bashkir literary language" at Moscow State University. He then went to work at Temiryazev Bashkir Pedagogical Institute (now Bashkir State University), where he was employed as a senior lecturer, and later dean of the faculty of foreign languages.

His scientific views were largely shaped by his dissertation advisor, Turkologist and orientalist Nikolai Dmitriev.

From 1951 to 1968 he headed the Department of Bashkir Linguistics at Temiryazev Bashkir Pedagogical Institute. From 1957 to 1961 he was Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs. In 1960, he defended his doctoral dissertation, "Phonetics of the Bashkir language (experience of descriptive and comparative historical research)". In 1961 he was awarded the title of professor, in 1967, he earned the title of Honored Scientist of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Cover of the book " Wood tales"

Keyekbayev came to literature in the 1930s. Along with fruitful creativity in poetry, he was actively involved in translating from German into Bashkir the works of Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Erich Weinert, Willi Bredel, Friedrich Wolf (Keyekbaev was his translator in Ufa in 1936), and the Brothers Grimm. During the years of World War II he wrote cubiars, essays, and stories on patriotic themes. He is the author of a book for children in the Bashkir language "Urman әkiәttәre" (1954; in the Russian translation of "Wood Tales", 1956); translated the tales of Jacob Grimm (1940; “Nemes halyk әkiәttәre”), from the Hungarian language - folk tales (1963 ; "Vengr halyk әkiәttәre"; co-authored).

He performed well long Bashkir folk songs and played musical instruments (piano, mandolin, and kuray).

Scientific activity

Keyekbaev for the first time in Turkology substantiated the essence of phoneme as a unit that serves not only for the formation of words and morpheme, but also for distinguishing their meanings. The ability of a phoneme to differentiate words is its social function. In 1966, he published a fundamental work, "Vocabulary and Phraseology of the Modern Bashkir Literary Language". The monograph also pays particular attention to lexical borrowings from Russian, Arabic, Persian and other languages.

In 1966, he published a textbook on the Bashkir language for students of the correspondence department of the philological faculty of BashSU, which describes in detail the grammatical categories of the nominal parts of speech and verb. Posthumously in 1996, Keyekbaev’s monograph "Fundamentals of the Historical Grammar of the Ural-Altai Languages" (which received positive reviews in the manuscript Nikolai Baskakov, Mirfatyh Zakiev and Boris Serebrennikov), in which the author bases a comparative examination of languages based on the category of certainty and uncertainty .

Keyekbaev used a new approach to studying the phonetics, morphology, lexicology and lexis of the Bashkir language. He is the founder of modern Bashkir linguistics, author of many textbooks.

Keyekbaev was the first to create a historical Bashkir grammar. In his monograph, Introduction to Ural-Altai Languages (1972), he was the first to show the genetic affinity of Uralic and Altaic.

Keyekbaev made a significant contribution to the training of scientific and pedagogical staff. More than ten candidate’s and doctor's degree theses have been defended under his scientific guidance.

Scientists about Keyekbaev

• The Bashkir linguist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan (1991), Doctor of Philology, professor Galey Saitbattalov in his memoirs described J. G. Keyekbaev: “In human society there is such an objective regularity: especially talented, even great personalities, writers appear in every nation, in any nationality once every hundred years , scientists, batyrs. Such people are usually called sons or daughters of the people. This high name can be applied to Jalil Giniyatovich Keyekbaev. ” (G.G. Saitbattalov. Memoirs of Jalil Keyekbaev.-Ufa, 1989.-S.39-40.)

• Full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Doctor of Philology, Professor Mirfatyh Zakiev about Professor J. Keyekbaev: “This person is one of the beautiful features of human nature. If there weren’t such people who could embody the best qualities of past and present generations, human society would not be able to develop so quickly. ”(Zakiev M.Z. Inspirational song.-Ufa, 2011.-С.11. )

• Memoirs of the Head of the Yakut Language Department of North-Eastern Federal University (Yakut State University), Professor Nikolai Antonov: “The lectures of J. Kiekbaev remained extremely interesting and exciting in memory. We were struck by the depth of his knowledge, erudition, knowledge of all issues. The scientist was fluent in many Turkic and Western European languages. In lectures, he attracted rich material from the Ural-Altai languages, including the Yakut, Chuvash, Tungus-Manchurian, Finno-Ugric and other languages. We felt that before us stands one of the most prominent linguists in the country. His lectures had a great influence on our work, and at the same time, we admired his simplicity and breadth of soul.» (Memoirs of Jalil Keyekbaev.-Ufa, 1989.-S.57-58. Memoirs of N. Antonov)
• Russian scientist-Turkologist, Doctor of Philology, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.N. Kononov: «The history of the kinship of the Turkic and Ural-Altai languages has been studied for more than 200 years, various ways and methods have been used for this, but not one of them has led to the desired results. And in recent years, Professor J.G. Keyekbaev and his school have achieved great results in this area. This is an indisputable fact, so we all need to study his works and his scientific methods, get acquainted with his scientific school. I don’t see another way now».(Aznabaev A.J. Kiekbaev // Uchitel Bashkirii. 1969.No3.P.3)

Memory

• In 1991, in the Gafuri region of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the annual Jalil Keyekbaev Prize was established.
• Streets in Ufa and the village of Krasnousolsky in the Gafuri region are named after Jalil Keyekbaev;
• A museum and a memorial office of Jalil Keyekbaev were opened at Bashkir State University; a scholarship was instituted in his name at BSU (1997).

• In Ufa, on the house where Jalil Giniyatovich Keyekbaev lived, a memorial plaque was installed.
• In Karan-Yelga of the Gafuri region of the Republic of Bashkortostan has opened the house-museum of a professor.
• Gymnasium No. 3 of the city of Sterlitamak, the secondary school of the village of Saitbaba and the secondary school of the village of Karan-Yelga were named after J. Keyekbaev.
• Every five years, international scientific-practical conferences dedicated to Jalil Keyekbaev are held at Bashkir State University .

A competition has been announced to create a monument to the scientist, the press service of the Gafuriysky District of Bashkortostan reports.

External images
Portrait Of Keyekbayev. Author Ildar Shayakhmetov 1991
The cover of the book. Compiled By Shayakhmetov 2011. Artist Gleb Golubev
Plaque. 1986, by I. G. Shayakhmetov.
Kiyekbayev on a postal envelope. 2011
Keyekbayev in his youth signed his works under the psedonym Jalil Tabyn.

Rewards

• Order of Lenin (1967)
• Order Badge of Honor (1961)

Main works

• "Bashkir literary pronunciation" (1954);
• "Questions of the Bashkir toponymy" (1956);
• Synharmonism in borrowings from Arabic and Persian languages. Teacher of Bashkiria (magazine).-1957-No. 7.-pp. 24-28.
• "Bashkir dialects and a brief introduction to their history" (1958);
• Phonetics of the Bashkir language (the experience of descriptive and comparative historical research). Ufa, 1958 (in Bashk. Lang.);
• Vocabulary and phraseology of the modern Bashkir language. Ufa, 1966 (in Bashk. Lang.);
• About the origin of some case forms in the Ural-Altai languages in the light of the theory of definiteness-uncertainty // Questions of the methodology and methodology of linguistic research. Ufa. 1966, p. 175-180
• Introduction to the Ural-Altai linguistics. Ufa, 1972;
• Fundamentals of historical grammar of the Ural-Altai languages. Ufa, 1996;
• Selected articles. Ufa, 2002. ;

Works of art:

• Relatives and acquaintances: Roman. - Ufa: Bashk. books. Publishing House, 1991 .-- 352 p. ( Bashk.)- ISBN 5-295-00691-3
• Keyekbaev J. G. K 36 Urman әkiәtttәre: bashkort, rus, ingliz, german, tөrөk teldәrendә. - Өfө: Kitap, 2011 .-- 264 bits. ISBN 978-5-295-05202-6 (WOOD TALES, WALDMÄRCHEN, ORMAN MASALLARI in Bashkir, Russian, English, German, Turkish)

Link

• digitized works in National Library named after Akhmet-Zaki Validi of the Republic of Bashkortostan

• Books in the Bashkir language

other sources

• Keyekbaev Jalil. Scientific publishing house "Bashkir encyclopedia". -Ufa ISBN 978-5-88185-143-9
• Aznabaev A.M. О научных достижениях профессора Дж. Г. Киекбаева (к 105-летию со дня рождения)
• Zaynullin M.V. Outstanding Bashkir scientist and Turkologist (on the 100th anniversary of Professor J. G. Keyekbaev)
• Библиография и ссылки по тюркологии
• Ссылки на сайты о тюркологии
• Кононов А. Н. Тюркология // Лингвистический энциклопедический словарь, М., 1990

Literature

• Zakiev М. Z. Дәртле йыр. Өфө, 1974;
• Suleymanov A..М. Халыҡ ижадынан һут алып: Жәлил Кейекбаевтың «Туғандар һәм таныштар» романында фольклор башланғыстары. Өфө, 2000
• Professor Jalil Giniyatovich Keyekbaev and his contribution to the development of the Ural-Altai and Turkic philology: materials of the Intern. scientific-practical conf. Ufa, 2011.
• Scientist and writer Jalil Giniyatovich Keyekbaev. Bibliography. Ufa BashSU, 2011. ISBN 978-5-9613-0167-0.
• Милибанд С. Д. Востоковеды России, XX — начало XXI века: Биобиблиографический словарь: В 2-х книгах. — М.: Восточная литература, 2008. — 968 с. + 1004 с. + 70 с. (доп. и указ., 2009).