Aleksander Chodźko

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

He was born in Krzywicze in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and attended the University of Vilnius (member of the Filaret Association) and the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Russian Empire in Saint-Petersburg.

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

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

Selected works

Persia

* “Popular Poetry of Persia” Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia, as found in the adventures and improvisations of Kurroglou, the bandit-minstrel of Northern Persia, and in the songs of the people inhabiting the shores of the Caspian Sea, orally collected and translated with philological and historical notes by Alexander Chodzko. London: Oriental Translation Fund, 1842.
* "Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia" by Chodzko (London, 1842);
* "Theatre persan" by Chodzko (Paris, 1878) ;
* "Le Deisme des ti'ahhabis" in the Journal asiatique by Chodzko, series iv. vol. xi. pp. 168
* "The Chodzko Collection" - a collection of 33 scripts, collected by Chodzko is preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris (The Islamic Drama de Jamshid Malekpour - Literary Criticism – 2004)
* "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 - The journal is published by the Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR)

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* Polish-English and English-Polish Dictionary (1851)
* “Fairy tales of the Slav peasants and herdsmen” by Chodsko, Alex. London, (in English by Emily J. Harding)
* The Twelve Months a slav legend, by Alexander Chodzko in Good Stories for Great Holidays, by Frances J. Olcott (2006 BiblioBazaar, LLC)

Ballads and poems

* Ballad "Maliny"
* Poezye : Alex. Chodzki 1828 St. Petersburg (2nd ed. , Poznan, 1833).

External links

*Independent, The (London), May 3, 2000 by Neal Ascherson [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000503/ai_n14308724]
*"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 ; [http://www.achiq.org/anadil/VarliqYazilar1.pdf]
* [http://www.narach.org/history/people/al_hodzka.html Аляксандр Ходзька]
*Genealogy: [http://www.sejm-wielki.pl/b.php?o=3.94.19]