Albert Starchevsky
Albert Vikentyevich Starchevsky (born Adalbert-Voytekh Starchevsky, Adalbert-Wojciech Starczewski, 28 April 1818, Kiev Governorate, Imperial Russia, — 7 October 1901, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian literary historian, journalist, editor, philologist, lexicographer and encyclopedist of Polish descent. He published his first major work (Foreign Writers' Accounts of Russia, 1841, followed by the part two of it, Historiae Rathenicae Scriptores exteri saeculi XVI, 1842) while still a student. Starchevsky edited Biblioteka Dlya Chtenya (with Osip Senkovsky, in the 1850s), Syn Otechestva (from 1856, for some twenty years, with breaks), then (in 1879–1885) Sovremennost (Our Times), Ulei (Beehive), Ekho (Echo) and Rodina (Native Land) newspapers.
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Albert Starchevsky
Рисовал П. Ф. Борель · Всемирная иллюстрация: журнал. — 1891. — Т. 46. — № 1186. — С. 260. · Public domain
- Name
- Albert Starchevsky
- Birth Name
- Adalbert-Wojciech Starczewski
- Born
- 28 April 1818
- Birthplace
- Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
- Died
- 7 October 1901
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia
- Occupation
- journalist
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Fields
- journalism · linguistics · lexicography · history of literature
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages
- Russian · French · German
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• Name — Albert Starchevsky • Birth Name — Adalbert-Wojciech Starczewski • Born — 28 April 1818 • Birthplace — Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 7 October 1901 • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia • Occupation — journalist • literary historian• philologist • lexicographer • encyclopedist
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