Aleksander Borejko Chodźko (30 August 1804 – 27 December 1891) was a Polish poet,

Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

, and

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Early life

He was born in Krzywicze, in the

Minsk Governorate The Minsk Governorate (russian: Минская губерния, Belarusian: ) or Government of Minsk was a governorate ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. The seat was in Minsk. It was created in 1793 from the land acquired in the partitio ...

of the

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(present-day

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) and attended the

Imperial University of Vilnius Vilnius University ( lt, Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, oldest in the Baltic states and in Northern Europe outside the United Kingdom (or 6th overall following foundations of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Glasgow a ...

. He was a member of the Filaret Association and the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Career

From 1830 until 1844 he worked as a Russian diplomat in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. From 1852 until 1855 he worked for the French Foreign Ministry in Paris. He succeeded

Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (; 24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. A principal figure in Polish Ro ...

in the chair of

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and literatures in the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

, holding the post from 1857 until 1883. He was a member of the

Royal Asiatic Society The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), was established, according to its royal charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the en ...

of Great Britain and Ireland and the

Société de Linguistique de Paris The Société de Linguistique de Paris (established 1864) is the editing body of the ''BSL'' (''Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique'') journal A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a met ...

Partial bibliography

Persia

* ''Popular Poetry of Persia''. Specimens of the popular poetry of Persia, orally collected and translated with philological and historical notes. London: Oriental Translation Fund, 1842. * ''Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia''. London, 1842. * ''Theatre persan''. Paris, 1878. * ''Le Deisme des ti'ahhabis'' in the Journal Asiatique, series iv. vol. xi. pp. 168. * ''The Chodzko Collection''. 33 scripts collected Chodźko preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris. Also known as ''The Islamic Drama'' by Jamshid Malekpour.

Slav

* Polish-English and English-Polish Dictionary (1851) * ''Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen''. London. (Translated by Emily J. Harding) * ''The Twelve Months: A Slav Legend'' appeared in ''Good Stories for Great Holidays'', by Frances J. Olcott (2006 BiblioBazaar, LLC) * ''Les chants historiques de l'Ukraine'' (Paris; reprinted by Bibliolife, 2008). 284 pp.

Ballads and poems

* Ballad ''Maliny'' * ''Poezye'' Alex. St. Petersburg, 1828 (2nd edition, Poznan, 1833).

References

External links

* * * * * * ''Alexander Chodzko as the forerunner of unveiling the Azerbaijani culture in the west'', par Ihar Lalkoŭ, М.А., History, Center for East European Studies,

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields o ...

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Genealogy
1804 births 1891 deaths People from Myadzyel District People from Vileysky Uyezd Polish orientalists Kurdologists Vilnius University alumni Collège de France faculty People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent Russian expatriates in Iran {{Poland-writer-stub