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Shaul Tchernichovsky (20 August 1875 – 14 October 1943; (ヘブライ語:שאול טשרניחובסקי); ), was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece. == Life == Shaul Tchernichovsky was born on 20 August 1875 in the village of Mykhailivka, Mykhailivka Raion, Taurida Governorate (now in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine). He started at a reformed religious primary school. At age 10 he changed to a Russian school.〔Jewish Virtual Library, (Shaul Tchernichovsky )〕 He published his first poems in Odessa where he studied from 1890 to 1892. The first poem he published was "In My Dream". From 1899 to 1906 he studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, finishing his medical studies in Lausanne. From then on, he mingled his activities as a doctor with his activities as a poet. After completing his studies he returned to Ukraine to practice in Kharkov and in Kiev. In the First World War he served as an army doctor in Minsk and in Saint Petersburg. From 1925 to 1932 he was one of the editors of the newspaper ''Hatekufa''. He also edited the section on medicine in the Hebrew encyclopedia ''Eshkol''. From 1929 to 1930 he spent time in America. In 1931 he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and settled there permanently. Besides being a poet, Tchernichovsky was known as an excellent translator. His translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey particularly earned recognition. He also translated Sophocles, Horace, Shakespeare, Molière, Pushkin, Goethe, Heine, Byron, Shelley, the ''Kalevala'', the Gilgamesh Cycle, the Icelandic Edda, etc. Tchernichovsky served as doctor of the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv. In his later years he served as doctor for the Tel Aviv schools. He was active in writers' organizations and a member of the Committee of the Hebrew Language. He was also the editor of the Hebrew terminology manual for medicine and the natural sciences. He was a friend of the distinguished Klausner family of Jerusalem, including the child who would grow up to become the novelist Amos Oz, to whom he was "Uncle Shaul." Shaul Tchernichovsky died in Jerusalem on 14 October 1943. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaul Tchernichovsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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