Mammadaga Sultanov's academic activity related to the classical heritage

Abstract

The article sheds light on the life path of Mammadagha Sultanmahammad oghlu Sultanov (1910-1991), a prominent representative of Azerbaijani manuscript and textual studies, a well-known Orientalist, poet and journalist, a researcher of Azerbaijani classical literature and an artistic translator of many examples of our Persian-language literature into our native language. His education, artistic creativity, translation, scientific research and organizational activities are reviewed in chronological order, his exceptional role in establishing the Republican Manuscripts Fund under the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences is specially emphasized. The article, prepared as a complete scientific biography of M.Sultanov, was created by involving in research the personal work and personal archive of the scientist preserved at the Institute of Manuscripts named after Mahammad Fizuli of ANAS, the memories of his contemporaries and the materials published about him in the press. In the article, M.Sultanov's life and creativity are studied from several angles: educational years, historical chronography of artistic creative activity, journalistic activity, years of military service, scientific and scientific-organizational activity, pedagogical activity, personal life. Throughout the research, the technique of gathering and selecting facts and establishing connections between them was creatively used by applying the biographical method.