Anton Ossipowitsch Muchlinski

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Antoni Muchliński, 2012
Antoni Muchliński's grave, 2012

Anton Ossipowitsch Muchlinski (also: Polish Antoni Muchliński , Antoni Mukhlinski ; Russian Антон Осипович Мухлинский ; * 1808 ; † October 13, 1877 ) was a Polish-Russian orientalist and Turkologist .

Life

Anton Muchlinski attended the monastery high school in Molodetschno . At the age of 15 he entered Vilnius University , initially in the law faculty; he studied with Joachim Lelewel , among others . After a first degree in 1826 or 1827, he studied at the Faculty of Literature and Liberal Arts. Wilhelm Münnich turned his interest to oriental studies.

Because the Vilnius University, a group of talented students at the University of St. Petersburg sent and he had lost the support of his uncle, Muchlinski went to Saint Petersburg. He passed an entrance exam to the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1832 he received a travel grant and traveled via Odessa and Constantinople to Syria, Palestine and Egypt. From there he brought back valuable manuscripts, including works by the Arab geographer Akhmed al-Katib.

In December 1835 he was called back to Saint Petersburg and gave an Arabic lecture at the chair of Ossip Senkowski , two years later he was given a specially created chair for Turkish philology. Muchlinski was the first in Europe to compile textbooks and reading books for use in university Turkish classes. He researched the Lipka Tatars and the Belarusian literature written in Arabic script

In 1846 Muchlinski worked in the Biblioteka Rządowa in Warsaw and was employed as a school visitator for the Jewish schools in the Kaunas governorate .

An inheritance enabled him to return to Saint Petersburg, where he initially worked as an associate professor and from 1853 as a full professor. Between 1859 and 1866 he was twice elected dean of the Faculty of Oriental Languages. In addition, he devoted himself to the study of Hebrew.

Personal

Muchlinski came from an impoverished Polish noble family. In 1837 he married Emilia Ciszyńska. The couple had three children. Anton Muchlinski's grave is in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

Works

  • Issledovanie o proischoždenii i sostojanii litovskich tatar (research on the origins of the Lithuanian Tatars). Saint Petersburg, 1857.

literature

  • Władysław Kotwicz : Orientalista Antoni Muchliński [The Orientalist A. Muchlinski. Life u. Plant]. Wilno: Kraj, 1935 (Collectanea orientalia; 8) ( BVB )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c T. P. Deryagina, OBFrolova: Antoni Muchlinski and his collection of Arabic manuscripts in the St. Petersburg University Library (PDF, English, accessed June 15, 2012; 752 kB)
  2. ^ A b Egidijus Aleksandravičius: Hebrew Studies at Vilnius University and Lithuanian ethnopolitical tendencies in the first part of the 19th century (Lituanus, Volume 37, No.2 - Summer 1991, English, accessed June 15, 2012)
  3. ↑ Irina Popova: The Orientalists of the Baltic Region and the World Sinology  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed June 15, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / asiares.lv  
  4. ↑ Kitabs, the unique highlight of the Belarusian language ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed June 15, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pravapis.org
personal data
SURNAME Muchlinski, Anton Ossipowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muchliński, Antoni (Polish); Мухлинский, Антон Осипович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian orientalist and Turkologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1808
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1877