Aleksander Chodźko

Aleksander Borejko Chodźko (30 August 1804 – 27 December 1891) was a Polish poet,[1] Slavist, and Iranologist.

He was born in Krzywicze, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) and attended the Imperial University of Vilnius.

He was a member of the Filaret Association and the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg.

From 1852 until 1855 he worked for the French Foreign Ministry in Paris.

He succeeded Adam Mickiewicz in the chair of Slavic languages and literatures in the Collège de France, holding the post from 1857 until 1883.

Emily J. Harding; Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen . Frontispiz (1896)