Jan Rypka

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Birthplace in Kroměříž
In this house on May 28, 1886 the academic Dr. Jan Rypka born, professor at the Charles University, world-famous orientalist 1886–1968 (memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Kroměříž)
Ferdowsi Millennial Congress , participant at the entrance to the Dār-al-fonūn Auditorium, Tehran

Jan Rypka (born May 28, 1886 in Kroměříž ; died December 29, 1968 in Prague ) was a Czech orientalist , Turkologist and Iranian scholar . He was professor of Iranology and Turkology at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague.

biography

Jan Rypka was born the son of a small businessman and graduated from high school in Kroměříž. He completed his studies at the University of Vienna and studied with prominent specialists - in particular Adolf Wahrmund and Joseph von Karabacek . From 1909 he published translations from Turkish and Persian (especially from Jami ), in 1910 he defended his thesis on Saadi's work . From 1920 he worked in Prague. In 1930 he became a professor at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University .

Rypka was one of the first 34 appointed members of the Prague Oriental Institute ( Orientální ústav ; appointed in November 1927 by TG Masaryk ).

In 1934 he was in Tehran at the invitation of the Iranian government , he was one of the participants in the Firdausi millennium and was elected a member of the Academy for Persian Language and Literature . He stayed in Iran until 1935.

In 1939 Rypka was appointed dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University. During this time, his scientific work mainly focused on the work of the Persian poets Labibi and Farrokhi. After the liberation of the republic, he contributed significantly to the restoration of the faculty.

He taught at the Sorbonne and the École nationale des langues orientales in Paris (1946) and was a founding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1953).

Ripka is the author of numerous works, one of the most famous of which is his history of Iranian literature . He wrote this book in Czech, but because of its importance, it has been translated into German, English and Persian. He was also one of the authors of the Cambridge History of Iran . He also wrote in German.

Ripka had two doctorates: a doctorate in humanities and a doctorate in science. He was an honorary doctor of the Tehran and Warsaw University .

Rypka's philological translations also served as the basis for the poetic translation of Persian poetry (e.g. Nizami , Omar Khayyam ) into Czech, including that of Vítězslav Nezval .

Publications (selection)

  • Dějiny perské a tádžické literatury [History of Persian and Tajik Literature]. Prague 1956
    • Iranian literary history. With the assistance of Otakar Klíma, Věra Kubíčková, Jiří Bečka , Jiří Cejpek, Ivan Hrbek. Heinrich FJ Junker was responsible for editing and editing the supplemented and expanded German edition . (= Iranian texts and auxiliary books . Volume 4). Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1959 (supplemented and expanded compared to the original Czech edition from 1956)
    • Jan Rypka and others: History of Iranian literature. Written in collaboration with Otakar Klíma, Věra Kubíčková, Felix Taure, Jiří Bečka, Jiří Cejpek, Jan Marek, I. Hrbek and JTP de Bruijn. Edited by Jahn Karl. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., [1968]. Guilders 130.
  • Turkish. - Berlin-Schöneberg: Langenscheidt, 1954, revised. 2., through Ed.
  • O knihách, knihovnách a knihomilech na východě. [About books, libraries and bookstores in the east] [Prague]: Nákl. from left, [1941]
  • Báqí as a ghazel poet. Prague: Facultas philosoph. Univers. Carol., 1926
  • Contributions to the biography, characteristics and interpretation of the Turkish poet Sábit. Prague: Filosof. Faculty University Karlovy. Part 1, 1924
  • (Afterword) Omar Chaijam. - The book of life is leafed through. Quatrains from Omar Chajjam. Re-composition by Martin Remané. Selected, translated from Persian a. annotated by Bozorg Alavi . With afterwords by Jan Rypka u. Bozorg Alavi. Berlin, Rütten & Loening, 1983.

literature

  • Jiří Bečka (Ed.): Yádnáme-ye Jan Rypka: collection of articles on Persian and Tajik literature. (Dedicated to Jan Rypka, on occasion of his 80th birthday). Academia, Prague 1967.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ a b data.bnf.fr : “Professeur à la Sorbonne et à l'École nationale des langues orientales, Paris (en 1946). - Membre fondateur de l'Académie des sciences tchécoslovaque (en 1953) "(accessed February 8, 2019)
  2. ↑ Historie ústavu - accessed on February 8, 2019
  3. ↑ The Ferdowsi Millennial Celebration .
  4. ↑ Akademický bulletin (accessed February 8, 2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Rypka, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech orientalist, Turkologist and Iranist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Kroměříž
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1968
Place of death Prague