Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj

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Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj

Oleksandr Stepanowytsch Afansassiev-Tschuschbynskyj ( Ukrainian Олександр Степанович Афанасьєв-Чужбинський , Russian Александр Степанович Афанасьев-Чужбинский Alexander Stepanovich Afansassiev-Tschuschbinski ; born February 28 . Jul / 11. March  1816 greg. (Other sources after 1817) in Iskiwzi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 6 September . jul / 18th September  1875 greg. in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire) was a Russian- Ukrainian historians, linguists, writers and ethnologist.

Life

Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj was born in Iskivtsi ( Ісківці ) in what is now Lubny district in the Ukrainian Oblast to a family of a small landowner. From 1829 to 1835 he attended the Lyceum in Nischyn and then served, lastly in the rank of lieutenant, from 1836 to 1843 in the Belgorod Uhlan Regiment. He met the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko in 1843 and accompanied him on his trip to the left bank of Ukraine in 1845/46 . From 1847 he worked in the office of governor of the Voronezh governorate and was the unofficial editor of the "Voronezh Provincial Gazette". As an ethnographer, he took part in expeditions of the Russian Navy to research the topography and ethnography of the rivers and coastal areas in southern Russia and traveled the banks of the Dnieper and Dniester , as a result of which he published two books: "Sketches of the Dniester" and "Essays on the Dnieper" . After returning from the expeditions, he lived in Saint Petersburg. There he founded the newspaper "Sankt Petersburger Blatt" in 1864, edited the "Iskra Magazin", was school inspector of literacy schools and director of the Museum of the Peter and Paul Fortress .

Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj's tombstone shows 1817 as the year of his birth

He translates Polish, English and French literature and was the author, mostly under pseudonyms, of numerous poems and novels as well as literary and critical articles.

He died in Saint Petersburg in 1875 and was buried there in the Volkovo Cemetery .

Web links

Commons : Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brockhaus-Efron (т. IIa (1891): Ауто - Банки, с. 487-488) + Енциклопедія історії України (Київ: Наукова С.) 1. - С., 2003. - думка., 2003.
  2. ^ Entry on Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 19, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj in the encyclopedia of the Schewtschenko Scientific Society ; accessed on March 19, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj on ukrainians-world ; accessed on March 19, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj, Oleksandr Stepanowytsch (full name); Афанасьєв-Чужбинський, Олександр Степанович (Ukrainian); Афанасьев-Чужбинский, Александр Степанович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian historian, linguist, writer and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Iskivtsi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1875
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire