John Oliver Wardrop an Hugo Schuchardt (07-12620)
an Hugo Schuchardt
10. 07. 1896
Englisch
Zitiervorschlag: John Oliver Wardrop an Hugo Schuchardt (07-12620). Kertch, 10. 07. 1896. Hrsg. von Frank-Rutger Hausmann (2021). In: Bernhard Hurch (Hrsg.): Hugo Schuchardt Archiv. Online unter https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:hsa.letter.10186, abgerufen am 18. 07. 2025. Handle: hdl.handle.net/11471/518.10.1.10186.
British Vice Consulate,
Kertch, Russia
July 10. 1896
Dear Professor Schuchardt,
Many thanks for your article entitled Khartwelische (why not Kartwelische?) Sprachwissenschaft,1 which I have read with interest.
Have you seen Conybeare’s paper on the Georgian and Armenian versions of Barlaam and Josaphat? (pp. 101-141 Vol. VII N° 2. Folk Lore. June 1896).2 I do not accept all my friend Conybeare’s conclusions. It is a great pity that he had not consulted E. Thaqaishvili’s3 edition Sibrdzne Balavarisi (Tiflis 1895. Tuнгруc usd. m-ba).4|2| Since my sister & I completed the translation of the Lives of S. Nino, which is not yet published,5 I have not done much Georgian; but a young friend from Tiflis will arrive here to-morrow and stay some weeks with me, so I shall have an opportunity of learning something from him.
My sister, with the rest of my family, has been in Georgia since the beginning of June, and will probably stay there till September, She has already obtained some valuable acquisitions for our library and has been promised several mss and old books.
It is a great misfortune that the only daily paper „Iveria“ has been suspended for eight months.
Believe me, dear Professor Schuchardt,
Sincerely yours
Oliver Wardrop
1 Schuchardt, „Kharthwelische Sprachwissenschaft I“, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 10, 1896, 115-128.
2 Frederick C. Conybeare, „The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in the Ancient Georgian and Armenian Literatures“, Folk=Lore. Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society VII,2, June 1896, 101-142.
3 Ekwtime Taqaischwili (1863-1953), georgischer Historiker, Archäologe und Politiker
4 E. Tarkénišvili, „Sibrdzne Balavarisi“, Zapiski Vostocnago Otdeleniya XI, Sankt Petersburg, 1897-98, 5-48.
5 Marjory Scott Wardrop and J. O. Wardrop, Life of St. Nino, Oxford, 1900 (Studia biblica et ecclesiastica V,1).