Ahatanhel Krymsky
Ahatanhel Krymsky | |
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| Born | 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1871 |
| Died | 25 January 1942 (aged 71) |
| Alma mater | Lazarev Institute, Moscow University |
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Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky (Ukrainian: Агатангел Юхимович Кримський, Russian: Агафангел Ефимович Крымский, romanized: Agafangel Yefimovich Krymsky; Crimean Tatar: Agatangel Krımskiy; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1871 – 25 January 1942) was a Ukrainian Orientalist, linguist, polyglot (knowing up to 35 languages), literary scholar, folklorist, writer, and translator. He was one of the founders of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) in 1918 and a full member of it and the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1903.
Although Krymsky was not ethnically Ukrainian, he described himself as a "Ukrainophile".
In 1941, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities as "Ukrainian nationalist," an "ideologist of Ukrainian nationalists", and a "head of nationalistic underground". He was convicted in "Anti-Soviet nationalistic activities" and imprisoned in Kustanay General Prison No.7 (today near Kostanay, Kazakhstan).