Albert Starchevsky
Albert Vikentyevich Starchevsky was a Russian literary historian, journalist, editor, philologist, lexicographer and encyclopedist of Polish descent.
Born in the Ivki village, Kiev Governorate, into a Polish family, Starchevsky studied law first at Kiev University, then at Saint Petersburg University. He published his first major work while still a student.
An authority on East European and Asian languages, he authored numerous books on Slavic philology and ethnography, compiled and edited several important Eastern languages dictionaries, including the Ancient Slavic Language dictionary, as well as the original edition of the Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary, in 1848-1853. Starchevsky edited Biblioteka Dlya Chtenya, Syn Otechestva, then Sovremennost, Ulei, Ekho and Rodina newspapers.
