Yevgeny Edelson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yevgeny Edelson

Russian literary critic, journalist and translator

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1824

Place of Birth: Ryazan, Ryazan Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1868

Profession: translator, journalist, literary critic, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Yevgeny Nikolayevich Edelson (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ????????; 12 october 1824, Ryazan, Russian Empire, - January 8, 1868, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian literary critic, journalist, translator and philosopher, best known for his critical and philosophical essays published in Moskvityanin (where he, along with Alexander Ostrovsky among others was part of the "young faction", formed by Mikhail Pogodin), Pyotr Boborykin-led Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya (there he headed the literary criticism department) and Vsemirny Trud.
Highly acclaimed were his translation of Gotthold Lessing's Laocoön and "Shchedrin and the New Satirical Literature" (both published in 1859), the first comprehensive analytical survey of Russian literary satire of the mid-19th century.