- Gösta Raquette
Gösta Rikard Raquette "(also spelled Gustav, or Gustaf, sometimes Rikard is spelled Richard)" (7 Feb. 1871-1945) was a missionary with the
Mission Union of Sweden toCentral Asia Raquette was born on 7 February 1871 in
Tolfta Parish ,Uppsala County .He served as a medical missionary in
Baku andBuchara from 1895-96,Kashgar from 1896-1901, Yarkand from 1904-11 and once more in Kashgar from 1913-21, then he returned toSweden viaTibet andIndia .Raquette married Evelina Elisabet Björkgren on
16 May ,1896 .After he returned to Sweden, and took up a lectureship at the
University of Lund .Gunnar Jarring is one of his most well known pupils from his time teaching at the University.ources
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Bibliography
*"Raquette, Gustaf, A contribution to the existing knowledge of the Eastern-Turkestan dialect as it is spoken and written at the present time in the districts of Yarkand and Kashgar, Helsingfors 1909."
*"Raquette, Gustaf, Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part I and II, Stockholm, 1912-1914."
*"Raquette, Gustaf, Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part I and II, Stockholm, 1912-1914."
*"Raquette, Gustaf, Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part III, Stockholm, 1912-1914."
*"Raquette, Gustaf, English-Turki dictionary based on the dialects of Kaschgar and Yarkand, Lund 1927."
*"Raquette, Gustaf, Täji bilä Zohra: Eine osttürkische Variante der Sage von Tahir und Zohra, Lund 1930."
*"Raquette, G., "Collection of Manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan. An Account of the Contents", särtryck ur C. G. Mannerheim, Across Asia from West to East 1906-08, Helsingfors 1940."
*"Raquette, Gustaf, Kaschgarische wakf-urkunde aus der Khodscha-zeit Ost-Turkestans, 1930"
*"Raquette, G., Simplified Christian Doctrines for Muslims, Kashgar"
*"Raquette, G., Gustaf Raquette and Qasim Akhun's letters to Kamil efendi: ethnological and folkloristic materials from southern Sinkiang"
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