A. KRIMSKY’S TRIP TO SYRIA AND LEBANON AND HIS SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY

Abstract

A. Krimsky (1871–1942) is a prominent personality in Ukrainian and world intellectual history. He combines the features of a real scientist and literary man, outstanding authour and translator as well as orientalist and known investigator in sphere of Ukraine’s study. He sometimes is accused of being a scientist, whose works were written on the ground of other scientists’ works by means of successful compilation. Nothing more than such statements can be done only by the critics, who do not know facts of his real biography. That is why it is necessary to show a significance of for his orientalist views forming.