Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Aleksander Chod?ko
Aleksander Borejko Chod?ko (August 30, 1804 – December 27, 1891) was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist. He was born in Krzywicze in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and attended the University of Vilnius (member of the Filaret Association) and the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Russian Empire in Saint-Petersburg. From 1830 until 1844, he worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran. From 1852 until 1855, he worked for Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the France. From 1857 until 1883 he succeeded Adam Mickiewicz in the chair of Slavic languages and literatures in the Coll?ge de France. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Soci?t? de linguistique de Paris.