Aleksander Chodźko

Aleksander Chodźko
Aleksander Chodźko
	Aleksander Chodźko
Born	30 August 1804; Krzywicze, Vileysky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	27 December 1891 (aged 87); Noisy-le-Sec, France
Occupation	Poet, Slavist, and Iranologist
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Imperial University of Vilnius
Relatives	Leonard Chodźko

Aleksander Borejko Chodźko (30 August 1804 – 27 December 1891) was a Polish poet,^[1] Slavist, and Iranologist.

Early life

He was born in Krzywicze, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) and attended the Imperial University of Vilnius. 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 Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg.

Career

From 1830 until 1844 he worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran. From 1852 until 1855 he worked for the French Foreign Ministry in Paris. He succeeded Adam Mickiewicz in the chair of Slavic languages and literatures in the Collège de France, holding the post from 1857 until 1883.

He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Société de Linguistique de Paris.

Partial bibliography

Emily J. Harding; Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen. Frontispiz (1896)

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). Wikimedia Commons has a file available.

References

^ Thiesse, Anne-Marie (2021). The Creation of National Identities Europe, 18th–20th Centuries. Brill. p. 63. ISBN 978-90-04-36670-1.

External links

Media related to Aleksander Chodźko at Wikimedia Commons
Polish Wikisource has original text related to this article: Autor:Aleksander Chodźko
French Wikisource has original text related to this article: Auteur:Alexandre Chodzko
Works by Aleksander Chodźko at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Aleksander Chodźko at the Internet Archive
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 - pdf - pages 20–22 ; [1] Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
Аляксандр Ходзька (in Russian)
Genealogy (in Polish)

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[1] Thiesse, Anne-Marie (2021). The Creation of National Identities Europe, 18th–20th Centuries. Brill. p. 63. ISBN 978-90-04-36670-1.

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