Fonds RAS DSM - Royal Asiatic Society: The Denis Sinor Medal

Identity area

Reference code

GB 891 RAS DSM

Title

Royal Asiatic Society: The Denis Sinor Medal

Date(s)

  • 1991-present (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

1/2 archival box + digital files

Context area

Name of creator

(1916-2011)

Biographical history

Born in Hungary in 1916, Sinor studied Altaic linguistics. Between 1939 and 1948, he he held various teaching and research posts in Hungary and France. After the war, where he served as a member of the French Resistance and later in the Free Frenchread more

Name of creator

(1901-1983)

Biographical history

Annemarie von Gabain (7 April 1901—15 January 1993) was a German scholar who dealt with Turkic studies, both as a linguist and as an art historian. She was born in Morhang and received primary and secondary education in Mainz and Brandenburg. She went toread more

Name of creator

(1899-1996)

Biographical history

Harold Walter Bailey was born in Wiltshire but spent much of his childhood in Australia where he self-taught himself many languages. He graduated from the University of Western Australia before taking up a studentship at Oxford University. Afterread more

Name of creator

(1918-2002)

Biographical history

Karl Jettmar (August 8, 1918 - March 28 , 2002 ) was an Austrian ethnologist, religious scholar and archaeologist. he was the son of the Viennese painter Rudolf Jettmar and studied at the University of Vienna from 1936, first in German and history, thenread more

Name of creator

(1927-2022)

Biographical history

Professor research covered a wide area from ancient ties between Mongolia, India and Tibet to Genghis Khan's Mongolian Empire to Mongolian communism in the 20th century.

From 1987, he served as the General Secretary for the International Association forread more

Name of creator

(1929-2016)

Biographical history

Igor de Rachewiltz (April 11, 1929 – July 30, 2016) was an Italian historian and philologist specializing in Mongol studies. He was born in Rome. In 1947, he read Michael Prawdin's Tschingis-Chan und seine Erben ("Genghis Khan and his Heritage") andread more

Name of creator

(1949-)

Biographical history

Nicholas Sims-Williams, FBA (born 11 April 1949, Chatham, Kent) is a British professor of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he is Emeritus Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies at the School ofread more

Name of creator

(1823-present)

Administrative history

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

Archival history

These are part of the institutional records of the Royal Asiatic Society which have been accumulated throughout its history.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

These records are part of the Royal Asiatic Society's Institutional Records and therefore part of the historical records of the Society.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

The Denis Sinor Medal was inaugurated in 1993 by Professor Denis Sinor, specifically to honour scholars in the field of Inner Asian Studies. He donated a sum of money at the initiation of the award and more was bequeathed after his death. The materialread more

System of arrangement

The series were arranged chronologically:

  • RAS DSM/1 - Inauguration of the Denis Sinor Medal
  • RAS DSM/2 - Annemarie von Gabain
  • RAS DSM/3 - Harold Bailey
  • RAS DSM/4 - Karl Jettmar
  • RAS DSM/5 - Shagdaryn Bira
  • RAS DSM/6 - Igor de Rachewiltz
  • RAS DSM/7 -
  • read more

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Mostly open. Recent material may be closed for confidentiality reasons. Please contact the archivist for further information Details can be found here : https://royalasiaticarchives.org/index.php/. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, andread more

Conditions governing reproduction

Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Language of material

  • English
  • German

Allied materials area

Related units of description

The Minute Books of the Council Meetings (RAS GOV1) may provide further information about the inauguration and awarding of the Medal.

Access points

Description control area

Description identifier

gb 891-ras dsm

Dates of creation revision deletion

This material was catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist , in 2024.