Erika Taube

Erika Taube studied Sinology, Tibetology, and Japanese Studies at the Leipzig University, from 1952 to 1957, and in Beijing from 1957 to 1958. She was a research assistant and later a research associate at the East Asian Institute in Leipzig. She studied Mongolian studies and folklore studies. In 1964, she received her doctorate with a dissertation on Mongolian fairy tales.

She did research in Mongolia since 1966, especially among the Tuvinians of the Mongolian Altai.[4] From 1992, she was a research associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies (teaching the Mongolian and Tuvan language and culture) at the University of Leipzig. Erika Taube's folklore material is still used today by Turkologists and folklore researchers as a rich source for further research.[5][6]

Her students include the orientalist and publicist Jakob Taube, and the ethnologist and writer Anett C. Oelschlägel.[7]

Erika Taube was married to the Tibetologist and Mongolist Manfred Taube.

She died in Markkleeberg near Leipzig on 3 July 2020.  

• Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara; Heuer, Brigitte; Boykova, Elena V. (2020-08-10). "Die Tuwiner von Cengel und die Natur - im Alltag". Man and Nature in the Altaic World.: Proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-220888-5.
• Veit, Veronika (2007). "Die Frau in der Volksdictung der Tuwiner im Altai". The Role of Women in the Altaic World: Permanent International Altaistic Conference, 44th Meeting, Walberberg, 26-31 August 2001. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-05537-6.