Sesquicentenary of Ahatanhel Krymsky
By Dr Olena Bordilovska
January 15 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ahatanhel Krymsky, an outstanding Ukrainian scholar – orientalist, philologist, writer, and translator, one of the founders of the first Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is a personality, which tops many of his colleagues, as his wide range of interests is amazing. He graduated from the Ostroh Gymnasium (1884), the 2nd Kyiv Gymnasium (1885), the Kyiv Collegium of Pavlo Halahan (1889), the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages (1892), and the Moscow University (1896).
Ahatanhel Krymsky is known as one of the world’s most prominent researchers of the Orient, first. Author of numerous scientific papers on the history of the culture of Arab countries, Iran and Turkey he thoroughly studied the history of Islam, Muslim culture and literature, traditions of the Oriental countries, personally translated a lot of classic texts as well as poetry. He was the first