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

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Aleksander Chodźko
Aleksander Chodźko
Born	(1804-08-30)30 August 1804 Krzywicze, Vileysky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	27 December 1891(1891-12-27) (aged 87) Noisy-le-Sec, France
Occupation	Poet, Slavist, and Iranologist
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Imperial University of Vilnius
Relatives	Leonard Chodźko

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

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

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).

External links

• Media related to Aliaksandr Chodźka 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 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 ;
• Аляксандр Ходзька (in Russian)
• Genealogy (in Polish)

На других языках

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- [en] Aleksander Chodźko

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[fr] Alexandre Chodzko

Aleksander Borejko Chodźko, en français Alexandre Chodzko, né le 11 juillet 1804 à Krzywicze (actuelle Biélorussie[1]) et mort le 19 décembre 1891 à Noisy-le-Sec (Seine[2]), est un écrivain, diplomate, orientaliste et philologue polonais, naturalisé français en 1858.

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[ru] Ходзько, Александр

Алекса́ндр Хо́дзько (Александр Леонардович Ходзько-Борейко, польск. Aleksander Chodźko; 30 августа 1804, Кривичи, Вилейский уезд Виленская губерния — 27 декабря 1891, коммуна Нуази-ле-Сек близ Парижа) — польский поэт и востоковед; брат Михала Ходзько и Иосифа Ходзько.

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