Genrikh Genrikhovich Manizer

Genrikh Genrikhovich Manizer was a Russian ethnographer who, among other works, produced valuable ethnographic monographs regarding two indigenous peoples of Brazil in 1914 and 1915.
The ethnographer, whose name is transliterated into the Latin script as H.H. Manizer or Henrich Henrikhovitch Manizer, was born in 1889, and was the most important member of the second Russian expedition to South America. Manizer spent six months with the Krenak in Minas Gerais and for three months with the Kaingang in São Paulo.
In Brazil he also carried out documentary research on the first Russian expedition to Brazil, the Langsdorff Expedition, producing the first historical works regarding it.
The outbreak of World War I in Europe cut Manizer's trip short. He died on the western front from typhus .
Manizer's ethnographic work about the Kaingang was first published in a French translation by Strelnikov, in 1930 ; it was only published in Brazil in 2006, as Os Kaingang de São Paulo, due to efforts of Editora Curt Nimuendajú, in a translation by Juracilda Veiga.