Sir Gerard Leslie Makins Clauson (28 April 1891 – 1 May 1974) was an English civil servant, businessman, and Orientalist best known for his studies of the Turkic languages. He was born in Malta.
The eldest son of Major Sir John Eugene Clauson, Gerard Clauson attended Eton College, where he was Captain of School, and where, at age 15 or 16, he published a critical edition of a short Pali text, „A New Kammavācā” in the Journal of the Pali Text Society. In 1906, when his father was named Chief Secretary for Cyprus, he taught himself Turkish to complement his school Greek. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in classics, receiving his degree in Greats, then became Boden Scholar in Sanskrit, 1911; Hall-Houghtman Syriac Prizeman, 1913; and James Mew Arabic Scholar, 1920.
Az Első Világháború során a Gallipoli Ütközetben is harcolt, de javarészt a hírszerzésnél német és (oszmán)
n 1919 he began work in the British Civil Service, which was to culminate in serving as the Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Office, 1940–1951, in which capacity he chaired the International Wheat Conference, 1947, and International Rubber Conference, 1951. A nyugdíjazása után 60, he switched to a business career and in time served as chairman of Pirelli, 1960–1969..
Művei :
- 1962, 2002. Turkish and Mongolian Studies. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Rpt. as Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-415-29772-9.
- 1964. „The Future of Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Studies„ Asia Major (New Series) volume 11, part 1: 54–77. Archived 2010-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
- 1972. An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- 2016. Gerard Clauson’s Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary: A Facsimile Edition. With an introduction by Imre Galambos. With Editorial notes and an Index by Andrew West. Prepared for publication by Michael Everson. Portlaoise: Evertype. ISBN 978-1-78201-167-5.
- A partially filled notebook containing Sir Gerard Clauson’s Notes on Kashgari’s Divan lugat at-Turk and other cognate subjects is held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham – kéziratosan.
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Forrásaim / Kaynakça :
- https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzadz%C3%ADki
- https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%B1%C
- Dávid Géza (szerkesztette) : Turistik Sözlük Türkçe–Macarca / Török–magyar utiszótár (Terra, Budapest, 1987)
- Csáki Éva : Török-Magyar Szótár (Balassi Kiadó, Budapest, 1995)
- Benderli Gün – Gülen Yılmaz – Kakuk Zsuzsa – Tasnádi Edit : Török-Magyar Szótár / Türkçe-Macarca Sözlük (Nemzedékek Tudása Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 2013)
- Nyáry Szabó László : TÖRÖK-MAGYAR SZÓTÁR, Torontál Kiadó, Szeged (kiadás előtt még kézıratossan)
- Türk Dil Kurumuna göre – itt hiányzik !
- Nyáry Szabó László : Szabó-szótár / ideolektusom (mind-máig digitális „kéz”- ill. „gép”-ıratban)
- (Sz.) : Számozatlan, forrásolatlan saját(os alkotású) szójavallataim