Academician Ahatanhel Krymsky and the Fate of His Latest Work

Abstract

Academician Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871-1942) is one of the world-class prominent
personality of the Oriental Sciences. Scientist was a connoisseur of different fields of
Oriental Sciences, Arabic scholar, semitologist, Iranian scholar, turkologist. The scientific
researches about the Azerbaijani literature, history and culture have taken special place in
his work. He has been founded the Azerbaijan Studies in Ukraine. Most part of the
hundreds of articles of Academician which published in the Brockhaus, Efron, and Granat
Russian encyclopedias concerning to the Near East and Middle East are belonged to
Azerbaijan. He has made the detailed imagination about the literature of Azerbaijan by
based to his perennial researches in his private essay which has included to the article
named as “History of Turkey and its Literature” publishing in the Granat Encyclopedia in
1931. However, the most precious work of Krymsky’s rich heritage is the fundamental
monograph entitled as “Nizami and his contemporaries”. This work which he wrote it by
the order of the Azerbaijani branch of USSR Academy of Sciences by related to the
preparation of the 800th anniversary of Nizami Ganjavi in 1941 has been able to publish
only 40 years later due to the starting of the war and repression of the scientist any more in
the 840th anniversary of genius poet in 1981. The biography of the scientist is looked
through in the background of strange fate of this latest masterpiece in two: intellectual and
existential aspects in the article. The concept and method of Krymsky’s research is also
analyzed here. The view of his to the history and personality in the revealing of the
appearances of the Turkish spirit has reflected in the Persian heritage of Nizami called as
“Genius Azerbaijani”.