Dulzon, Andrei

Andrei Petrovich Dulzon, son of Peter D. Dulson & Margaretha Zimmermann, was born 27 January 1900 in the Volga German colony of Preuss. He was a reknowned researcher in dialectology, folklorist, anthropologist, and archaeologist.

From 1919 to 1924, he had participated in archaeological expeditions to study the ancient tombs of the Scythians and Sarmatians and from 1924 to 1929 he worked with Georg Dinges and his dialectological expeditions of the colonies of the Volga Germans. He also collected materials on the history of the settlements of the Volga Germans and the Ukrainian dialectology. Dr. Dulzon received a doctorate in 1940 from the Saratove Staet Pedagogical Institute.

In 1934, shortly after defending his masters thesis (on language mixing in the Volga German dialect), he was arrested on charges of counterrevolutionary activity, but was released in 1935. From 1936 until the deportation of the Volga Germans in August 1941, he taught at the Saratov State Pedagogical Institute. In 1944, he joined the faculty of the Pedagogical Institute in Tomsk. He died on 15 January 1973 in Tomsk.

Dr. Dulzon and his wife Victoria Glock are parents of Dr. Alfred Dulzon, a professor and university executive at the Polytechnical Institute in Tomsk.