Aza Alibekovna Takho-Godi (born October 26, 1922 , Makhachkala) is a Soviet and Russian classic philologist , translator. Doctor of Philology (1959), Professor (1965), Honored Professor of Moscow State University (1992), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998), Honored Scientist of the Republic of Dagestan (2012).
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| Place of work | Moscow University (from 1962 to 1996) |
| Alma mater | MGPI them. V. I. Lenin |
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| Academic rank | professor (1965) |
| supervisor | A. F. Losev |
| Famous students | G. C. Huseynov , N.V. Braginskaya |
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Scientific interests are associated with ancient literature in its aesthetic and philosophical aspects, with terminological studies; the study of genres and styles, ancient rhetoric, Greek mythology, the reception of antiquity in Russian literature, the typology of ancient culture.
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Biography
Aza Alibekovna Taho-Godi was born in the city of Makhachkala. Father - Alibek Alibekovich Takho-Godi - a prominent statesman and socio-political figure in Dagestan (1892-1937), was repressed and shot, and subsequently rehabilitated; mother - Nina Petrovna Takho-Godi (nee Semenova, 1894-1982) [1] , was serving time in camps in Mordovia . Brother Hadji Murad (1919-2002) - forensic scientist, honored lawyer of Russia; brother Mahach (1933-1940) died in an orphanage; sister Muminat (born 1931) - specialist in French literature, doctor of philological sciences, professor of North Ossetian State University .
In 1929, the family moved from Dagestan to Moscow, where it settled on 3rd Zvenigorodskaya , d. No. 5 [2] . Aza began to be interested in philology since childhood [2] [3] .
After the arrest of her parents, she and her sister lived in Ordzhonikidze with the brother of the mother of the literary critic L.P. Semenov .
After leaving school, as the daughter of the repressed, she could not go to college, but was admitted to the Karl Liebknecht Moscow Industrial and Pedagogical Institute [4] , in 1943 merged with the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. V.I. Lenin , whose philological faculty she graduated in 1944, after which she entered the graduate school in the Department of Classical Philology, where she first studied with Professor N. F. Deratani and graduated from it in 1947 [5] .
In graduate school, Tahoe-Godi studied Greek under Professor A.F. Losev (1893-1988), became his student and close friend of the Losev family - Alexei Fedorovich and his wife, after whose death in 1954, subsequently, a life partner and guardian of his heritage .
In 1949, A. A. Takho-Godi, who was dismissed from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute as the daughter of an “ enemy of the people, ” defended her Ph.D. Before that, she taught for some time at the Department of Classical Philology of the University of Kiev in 1948-49.
In 1949-1958 taught antique literature, Latin and Greek to undergraduate and graduate students at the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute. N.K. Krupskaya , Associate Professor.
In the 1950s, she was invited to work at the Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University , where she worked since 1958 and the following year she defended her doctoral dissertation at the Institute of World Literature, "Antiquity and Russian Revolutionary Democrats in Connection with the Literary Aesthetic Tradition Prior to It" . Concurrently in 1957-1987. taught a course of antique literature at the Literary Institute of the USSR Writers Union.
From 1962 to 1996, she headed the Department of Classical Philology of Moscow State University. Since 1977, chairman of the special council for the defense of dissertations (classical philology) at the philological faculty of Moscow State University.
Member of the editorial board of the series of books " Library of Ancient Literature ", published by the publishing house "Fiction". Since 1997, a member of the PEN Club [6] .
As the chairman of the cultural and educational society Losevskie Conversations, she initiated the creation in Moscow on the old Arbat in the house where A.F. Losev lived, the Library of the History of Russian Philosophy and Culture "A.F. Losev's House", which houses the book collection of A. F. Losev and there is a memorial exposition in his honor.
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998), Honored Scientist of the Republic of Dagestan (2012). Awarded the Silver Medal of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences “For Contribution to the Development of Philosophy” (2011) [7] . In 2015, she was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation [8] .
Proceedings
Published since 1953 [6] . The author of more than 300 scientific papers. She is the editor and author of the textbook Antique Literature (1963), which has published seven more editions in Russia (the last in 2007) and translated into several languages.
Author of the preface and commentary on the publications:
- Ancient rhetoric (1978),
- Antique Anthems (1988),
- Homer. "Odyssey".
Under the editorship and with the comments of A. A. Takho-Godi, the complete works of Plato in Russian (1990-1994) were published.
Author of monographs:
- Greek mythology (1989),
- Plato and Aristotle (the latter two, co-written with A.F. Losev, were reprinted in expanded form in 1993 and translated into English, Italian, Hindi),
- Greek culture in myths and symbols (1997),
- Varia historia: Antiquity and Modernity (2007).
The author of more than three hundred articles for the encyclopedia " Myths of the World " (1980-1982, 1987-1988).
A.A. Taho-Godi conducts publishing activities on the publication of the works of A.F. Losev.
The author of the biography of A. F. Losev in the ZhZL series (first edition - 1997; 2nd supplemented and corrected - 2007).
In 2009, A. Takho-Godi’s memoirs “Life and Fate: Memories” in the series “Close Past” https://biography.wikireading.ru/194158 were published.
Notes
- ↑ Losev <Aza Tahoe-Godi
- ↑ 1 2 Journal Hall | Questions of literature, 2012 N5 | A. TAKHO-GODI - Close Past
- ↑ Interview with A. A. Tahoe-Godi on the occasion of her 85th birthday
- ↑ Interview with Ekaterina Danilova with A. A. Takho-Godi
- ↑ Tahoe-Godi, Aza Alibekovna - this ... What is Taho-Godi, Aza Alibekovna?
- ↑ 1 2 Tahoe-Godi A.A. // Who is who in Russian literary criticism: bio-bibliogr. reference dictionary / Ch. ed. A.N. Nikolyukin . 2013.
- ↑ Awarding ceremony of medals of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences “For contribution to the development of philosophy” (2011)
- ↑ Order of the President of the Russian Federation of April 27, 2015 No. 114-rp “On Promotion”
Links
- Biography and list of works
- Interview with A. A. Tahoe-Godi on the occasion of her 85th birthday
- Interview 2012
- Interview 2012 in the journal " Questions of Philosophy "
- Tahoe-Godi interview for The Prime Russian Magazine, 2014.
- http://www.philol.msu.ru/~classic/persons/taho-godi/