- Also known as
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Zaba, Alexander August
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primary name: Jaba, Alexandre Auguste
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other name: (Monsieur) Zaba, Alexander August
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other name: Dementievîç, August
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other name: Jaba, Alexander Augusta
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other name: Zaba, August Kosciesza
- Details
- individual; official; Polish; Russian; Male
- Life dates
- 1801-1894
- Biography
- Alexander August Kosciesza Zaba was born to a Catholic family in Kraslava in modern day Poland in 1801. He studied Eastern languages at university in St. Petersburg between 1824 and 1828. Between 1848 and 1866 he served as Russian consul in Erzurum, Turkey (although he served in the Crimean War between 1853 and 1856). In 1860 he published his research on Kurdistan as 'Recueil des notices et récits de la Littérature et des tribus du Kourdistan' in a French magazine. In 1866 he settled in Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey). In 1870 a collection of his coins was purchased by the British Museum (he is named on the written receipt as 'Monsieur Zaba') via the coin dealer James Whittall, Esq, who was also resident in Smyrna at that time. In 1879 he produced a Kurdish-French dictionary with German scholar Ferdinand Just.
- Bibliography
- Conermann, Stephan; Kemper, Michael. The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies. 2011. Routledge. Abingdon, Oxfordshire. 2011. p. 87
Jaba, Alexandre, M.; Recueil des notices et récits de la Littérature et des tribus du Kourdistan; The Imperial Academy of the Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1860. p. VI
Jaba, Auguste, M.; Justi, Ferdinand, M.; Dictionnaire Kurde-Francais; The Imperial Academy of the Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1879. p. V
