Ahatanhel Krymsky
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| Native name | Агатангел Кримський |
| Born | 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1871 Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 January 1942 (aged 71) Kostanay, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
| Residence | Moscow, Kiev |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire → Ukraine → USSR |
| Alma mater | Lazarev Institute, Moscow University |
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Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky (Ukrainian: Агатангел Юхимович Кримський, Russian: Агафангел Ефимович Крымский; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1871 – 25 January 1942) was an Ukrainian Orientalist, linguist and 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 of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1903.
Krymsky was born in Volodymyr-Volynskyi to a Lipka Tatar father and an ethnic Polish mother. His family moved soon to Zvenyhorodka in Central Ukraine. His surname "Krymsky" (Ukrainian: Кримський) means "Crimean" and was received by an ancestor in the 17th century who was a Crimean Tatar mullah from Bakhchysaray. He was baptized into Eastern Orthodoxy. Although Ahatanhel had no Ukrainian origin he described himself as "Ukrainophile".
Krymsky graduated from Galagan College in Kiev in 1889, from the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow in 1891, and subsequently from Moscow University in 1896. After graduation, he worked in the Middle East from 1896 to 1898, and subsequently returned to Moscow, where he became a lecturer at the Lazarev Institute, and, in 1900, a professor. Krymsky taught Arabic literature and Oriental history. In Moscow, he was active in the Ukrainian pro-independence movement and was a member of Moscow's Ukrainian Hromada.
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