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Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Гне́дич, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ] (listen); 13 February [O.S. 2 February] 1784 – 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1833) was a Ukrainian-born Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822). His translation of the Iliad (1807–29) is still the standard one.

Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich Никола́й Ива́нович Гне́дич
Portrait by Orest Kiprensky (1826—1828)
Born	(1784-02-13)13 February 1784 Poltava, Russian Empire
Died	15 February 1833(1833-02-15) (aged 49) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Alma mater	Imperial Moscow University (1802)

Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as "a noble exploit worthy of Achilles" and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines "With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights..."[1]

Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameters, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet:

Крив был Гнедич-поэт, преложитель слепого Гомера, Боком одним с образцом схож и его перевод.	Poet Gnedich, renderer of Homer the Blind, Was himself one-eyed, Likewise, his translation Is only half like the original.[2]

He also wrote Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803), probably the first example of Russian Gothic fiction.[3]

References

Bibliography

• Imperial Moscow University: 1755-1917: encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow: Russian political encyclopedia (ROSSPEN). A. Andreev, D. Tsygankov. 2010. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-5-8243-1429-8.

На других языках

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[de] Nikolai Iwanowitsch Gneditsch

Nikolai Iwanowitsch Gneditsch (russisch Николай Иванович Гнедич; wiss. Transliteration Nikolaj Ivanovič Gnedič; geboren 13. Februar 1784 in Poltawa, Russisches Kaiserreich, gestorben 15. Februar 1833 in Sankt Petersburg) war ein russischer Dichter und Übersetzer (Ilias von Homer).

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- [en] Nikolay Gnedich

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[fr] Nikolaï Gnieditch

Nikolaj Ivanovič Gnedič est un poète russe né à Pultawa en 1784 et mort en 1833 à Saint-Pétersbourg. Il était conservateur de la Bibliothèque impériale, conseiller aulique, membre de l'Académie russe.

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[ru] Гнедич, Николай Иванович

Никола́й Ива́нович Гне́дич (2 (13) февраля 1784—3 (15) февраля 1833) — русский поэт, наиболее известный как переводчик на русский язык «Илиады».

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