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 800^th 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 840^th 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”.