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Agathangel Krymsky
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Agathangel Krymsky

أغاتانغل كريمسكي

Notable figure 1871–1942 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 946; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 891 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Krimsʹkij, Agatangel Ûhimovič (1871-1942), born 15 Jan. 1871, died 25 Jan. 1942

From Ukraine; worked in Russia

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Historian of Arabic literature; translator of Arabic poetry

Biography

Born in Ukraine, he graduated from Moscow University (1892–1896) and travelled in Syria and Lebanon (1896–1898). He taught Arabic language and literature at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow and was later among the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He wrote on modern Arabic literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1906) and on the poet Aban al-Lahiqi (1914), introduced a translation of the Thousand and One Nights (1904), and translated from Abu Tammam's Hamasa (1912).