Description:
As part of the programme of events envisaged in the Order of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic on marking the 200th anniversary of the first German translation and publication of "The Book of Dada Qorqud", the Baku International Multiculturalism Centre presents in 25 langauges: Arabic, Armenian, Avar, Chinese, English, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Khinaliq, Kurdish, Lezgi, Persian, Russian, Talish, Tat, Turkish, Udi, Ukrainian.
This book is to be published in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Dutch,
Polish, Czech, Bulgarian and many other languages in the future
"In 1815 the outstanding German Orientalist and diplomat, Heinrich Friedrich von Diez, translated into German part of the Azerbaijani (Oghuz) epic poem "The book of Dada Qorqud"... Von Diez published his translation in Berlin, accompanied by a foreword with a deep comparative analysis. In this way, the epic "Book of Dada Qorqud" was presented to international scholarship in 1815"