Aleksander Chodzko
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Aleksander Borejko Chodźko (30 August 1804 – 27 December 1891) was a Polish
Poland
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 poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, Slavist, and Iranologist.

Biography

He was born in Krzywicze in Russia
Russian Empire
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 (today's Kryvičy, Belarus
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), and attended the University of Vilnius. He was a member of the Filaret Association
Filaret Association
The Filaret Association was a secret organization created in 1820 by Tomasz Zan within the Philomates following the dissolution, under pressure from Wilno University authorities, of the Radiant Association...

 and the Institute of Oriental Studies
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences , formerly Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, is Russia's leading research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa...

 that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire
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 in Saint Petersburg
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.

From 1830 until 1844, he worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran
Iran
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. From 1852 until 1855, he worked for French Foreign Ministry in Paris
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. From 1857 until 1883 he succeeded Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

 in the chair of Slavic languages
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 and literatures in the Collège de France
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.

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

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)

Ballads and poems

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

Further reading

  • Aleksander Chodzko (1804–1891) and his "Oriental" Poems by Anna Krasnowolska. Polska Akademia Nauk oddz. Kraków, 2003.
  • The Oldest Known Texts in New Tabari: The Collection of Aleksander Chodźko by Habib Borjian, Archiv orientální Vol. 74, No. 2, 2006. This journal is published by the Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR).

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