BEKIR CHOBANZADE'S RESEARCHES OF THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE

Abstract

Professor Bakir Vahab oglu Chobanzadeh (1893-1937), one of the prominent figures in the field of humanities in Azerbaijan in the twentieth century, was a graduate of the school of Turkology with great traditions. He acquired modern thinking and political knowledge through European-style higher education on the one hand, and constant self-improvement on the other. He was able to grow up as a person who synthesized the West and the East, to have a new way of thinking. Bakir Chobanzadeh's research on the history of literature included three directions: 1) Theoretical issues of literature; 2) Problems of literary history and literary historiography; 3) Today in the history of Azerbaijani literature. It should be noted that despite the leading linguistic factor in the work of Bakir Chobanzadeh, he was also engaged in the history of literature, and expressed valuable scientific and theoretical views on it. Many of these ideas played an important role in the formation of a new literary historiography. Issues such as the origin and development of literature, the tandem of form and content, the fact that literature is a science, the chronology of the history of literature, its educational significance, etc. were first theoretically studied in the works of Bakir Chobanzade.