Nikolay Gnedich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolay Gnedich

Russian poet and translator

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1784

Place of Birth: Poltava, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1833

Profession: poet, translator, linguist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (Russian: ??????´? ???´????? ???´???, IPA: [n??k?'laj ?'van?v??t? 'gn?ed??t?] (listen); 13 February [O.S.
2 February] 1784 – 15 February [O.S.
3 February] 1833) was a Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822).
His translation of the Iliad (1807–29) is still the standard one. Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as "a noble exploit worthy of Achilles" and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines "With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights..." [1] Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameters, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet: He also wrote Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803), probably the first example of Russian Gothic fiction.