Arthur Leist

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Arthur Leist (1898)

Arthur Leist (born July 8, 1852 in Breslau , † March 22, 1927 in Tbilisi ) was a German writer and journalist. He lived in Georgia , translated classic Georgian and Armenian literature, published Transcaucasian studies and was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Caucasian Post .

Life

He attended high school. After graduating from high school, he worked as a journalist. He took historical lectures at the University of Breslau . During the Russo-Ottoman War in 1877 and 1878 he began to be interested in Georgia. In 1884 he traveled to the country for the first time, and a second time in 1885. After his third trip to Georgia in 1892, he stayed there forever.

Leist spoke German, Georgian, Armenian and Russian. He devoted himself to the translation of classical Georgian and Armenian literature into German, wrote works on Georgian history, ethnography and culture . In 1887 he published the first anthology of Georgian poetry in Germany, and in 1889, with the help of Ilia Tschawtschawadze, the first complete edition of the Georgian national epic The Warrior in a Tiger Skin in Western Europe .

For decades he reported for German newspapers and magazines from the Caucasus. From 1906 to 1922 he was editor-in-chief of the German-language weekly newspaper Caucasian Post, which was published by Kurt von Kutschenbach in Tbilisi . He gave lectures on the German language at the State University of Tbilisi .

Leist was buried on March 26, 1927 in the Didube-Pantheon cemetery in Tbilisi.

Works

Monographs

  • Georgia: nature, customs and inhabitants . W. Friedrich, Leipzig 1885
  • Literary sketches . W. Friedrich, Leipzig 1886 (Ed. Abgar Johannissiany)
  • Three stories by Raphael Patkanian . W. Friedrich, Leipzig 1886
  • Georgian poet . W. Friedrich, Leipzig, 1887
  • Armenian poet . E. Pierson, Dresden 1898
  • Schota Rustaweli: Der Mann im Tigerfelle (translation) E. Pierson, Dresden 1898 online version
  • The Georgian people . E. Pierson, Dresden, 1903
  • Kakheti . Tbilisi, 1927
  • Sakartvelos guli , Tbilisi 1963

Essays

  • The education of the Georgians and Armenians . In: Gazeta Polska , No. 66, 1882
  • A forgotten literature . In: Magazine for literature at home and abroad , No. 6, February 10, 1883
  • Kolchidaschi , In: Iveria , No. IV-V, 1885, pp. 164-211
  • Georgian proverbs . In: From Foreign Tongues , No. 9, 1900

literature

  • Schota Rewischwili: Arthur Leist and the Georgian writers . Scientific journal / Friedrich Schiller University Jena, social and linguistic series, 26 (1977) 1, pp. 97-103
  • Andrzej Wozniak: W poszukiwaniu drugiej ojczyzny. "Szkice z Gruzji" Artura Leista . in: Arthur Leist: "Szkice z Gruzji" . Warsaw: Nakładem księgarni AW Gruszeckiego, 1886. New edition: Cracow: Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II, 2013. ISBN 978-83-937737-0-1 . Digitized version (Polish, accessed December 4, 2015)

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Leist, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1927
Place of death Tbilisi