Nationality Polish Relatives Leonard Chodzko Education Vilnius University | Role Poet Name Aleksander Chodzko | |
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Occupation poet, Slavist, and Iranologist Died December 27, 1891, Noisy-le-Sec, France Books Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen | ||
Aleksander Borejko Chodźko (30 August 1804 – 27 December 1891) was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist.
Biography
He was born in Krzywicze in Russia (today's Kryvičy, Belarus), and attended the University of Vilnius. He was a member of the Filaret Association and the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg.
From 1830 until 1844 he worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran. From 1852 until 1855 he worked for the French Foreign Ministry in Paris. He succeeded Adam Mickiewicz in the chair of Slavic languages and literatures in the Collège de France, holding the post from 1857 until 1883.
He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Société de Linguistique de Paris.