Andreas Ascharin

Andreas Ascharin ( also Russian Андрей Александрович Ашарин / Andrei Alexandrovich Ascharin; scientific transliteration Andrei Aleksandrovich Asarin; * 12 Junijul / June 24 1843greg in Pärnu, Governorate of Livonia, .. .. † 12 Dezemberjul / December 24 1896greg in Riga ) was a baltic- Russian writer, teacher and translator. He was also known as a chess player.

Biography

Ascharins father was Russian, his mother belonged to a Baltic German family. After attending the Gymnasium in Dorpat he studied at the University of Dorpat Jura; according to other sources, he took from 1865 to 1874 only mathematics and then Jura. Between 1875 and 1879 he lived in the Russian capital and wrote as a journalist for the St. Petersburg newspaper, the St. Petersburg Herald. In 1879 he moved to Riga, and was German teacher at Alexander and Lomonosov school. Even in the later period remained Ascharin versatile active in journalism.

Literary translator and poet

Its origin was found to be indicative, because Ascharin occurred especially as a translator of Russian literature into German forth. He also published his own poems. In Ascharins transmission, among other works of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexei Tolstoy and Nikolai Gogol in Germany were first known. His translation theory explained Ascharin in the preface to volume of poetry Nordic Sounds (1894 ).

Chess activity

During his time in St. Petersburg, he participated in several chess tournaments. In 1876 Ascharin won the first Russian master Mikhail Chigorin tournament before and Emanuel Schiffer. Against Friedrich Amelung he lost a race in 1877 with 4:5 ( 3 -4 = 2). When Petersburg Tournament of 1879, which won Chigorin by random fight against Simon Alapin, Ascharin came to sixth place. In Riga, he supervised chess columns in the Riga Tageblatt and in the Dvina newspaper. He was also Chairman of the Riga Chess Association. Two years before his death he published under the title Chess Humoresken one of the early books on humor and chess, which includes both memories of chess opponents as Chigorin or his friend Amelung.

Works (selection)

  • Poems; Riga 1878
  • Russian novella treasure, 2 volumes; Jelgava 1879-1880
  • Nordic sounds. Russian seals in German transmissions; Riga 1894
  • Chess Humoresken; Riga 1894
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