Alexander Lazarevich Shovtis

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Олександр Лазарович Жовтіс
Transl. : Oleksandr Lasarovyč Žovtis
Transcr. : Oleksandr Lasarowytsch Schowtis
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Александр Лазаревич Жовтис
Transl .: Aleksandr Lazarevič Žovtis
Transcr .: Alexander Lazarevich Shovtis

Alexander Lasarewitsch Schowtis ( Ukrainian : Oleksandr Lasarowytsch Schowtis ; born April 5, 1923 in Vinnytsia , Ukrainian SSR ; † November 9, 1999 in Almaty , Kazakhstan ) was a Ukrainian and Kazakh literary critic , writer and translator .

Life

Alexander Shovtis was evacuated with his family to the Kazakh SSR at the age of 18 when the Wehrmacht approached his hometown Vinnytsia in 1941 . There he graduated from the Kazakh University in Alma-Ata in 1946 and worked between 1948 and 1971 and again from 1978 as a professor at the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute , where he was dismissed a total of five times. Among other things, he was dismissed for " Tatar nationalism" for dropping a good word about the Tatar Khan at a lecture on Old Russian literature at a time when the Communist Party was fighting against Tatar nationalism. The native Jew Shovtis was dismissed as a “ Zionist ” in 1971 for the fifth time .

From 1958 on, Shovtis was a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR and in 1975 he became a doctor of philology. With the help of the Kazakh intellectual Sandschar Dschandossow ( Санджар Уразович Джандосов ; 1930-1992) he received a professorship at the Pedagogical Institute in 1978. In 1993 he became a member of the international PEN club .

Schowtis was the author of scientific works on Taras Shevchenko's theory of poetry and poetics. As a translator, Shovtis devoted himself to works by Russian, Kazakh, Korean and Ukrainian writers. He translated from Ukrainian, Kazakh, Korean and English into Russian. He translated several hundred Ukrainian folk songs and published translations of individual poems by Maksym Rylskyj , Ivan Dratsch and Dmytro Pavlychko .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Oleksandr Schowtis in the Shevchenko encyclopedia ; accessed on July 8, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Literary Alma-Ata Alexander Lasarewitsch Schowtis; accessed on July 8, 2020 (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b Wyktor Snytkowskyj - In memory of Alexander Schowtis ; accessed on July 8, 2020 (Russian)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Oleksandr Schowtis in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on July 8, 2020 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Shovtis, Alexander Lasarewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Жовтис, Александр Лазаревич (Russian); Shovtis, Oleksandr (transcribed in Ukrainian); Жовтіс Олександр Лазарович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian and Kazakh literary critic, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinnytsia , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1999
Place of death Almaty , Kazakhstan