Igor de Rachewiltz (April 11, 1929 – July 30, 2016)[1][2] was an Italian historian and philologist specializing in Mongol studies.
His grandmother was a Tatar from Kazan in central Russia who claimed lineage from the Golden Horde.
[4] In 1947, he read Michael Prawdin's Tschingis-Chan und seine Erben ("Genghis Khan and his Heritage") and became interested in learning the Mongolian language.
He became a senior Fellow of the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University (1967–94), a research-only fellowship.
[7] Late in his life, de Rachewiltz was an emeritus Fellow in the Pacific and Asian History Division of the Australian National University.