{{Short description|Russian literary critic, journalist, translator and philosopher}} {{Infobox person | name = Yevgeny Nikolayevich Edelson | image = Yevgeny Edelson.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Евгений Николаевич Эдельсон | birth_date = 12 October 1824 | birth_place = Ryazan, Russian Empire | death_date = 8 January 1868 | death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | occupation = literary critic, essayist, translator | years_active = | spouse = | website = | awards = }}
'''Yevgeny Nikolayevich Edelson''' ({{langx|ru|Евгений Николаевич Эдельсон}}; 12 october 1824, Ryazan, Russian Empire, - January 8, 1868, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian literary critic, journalist, translator and philosopher, best known for his critical and philosophical essays published in ''Moskvityanin'' (where he, along with Alexander Ostrovsky among others was part of the "young faction", formed by Mikhail Pogodin), Pyotr Boborykin-led ''Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya'' (there he headed the literary criticism department) and ''Vsemirny Trud''. Highly acclaimed were his translation of Gotthold Lessing's ''Laocoön'' and "Shchedrin and the New Satirical Literature" (both published in 1859), the first comprehensive analytical survey of Russian literary satire of the mid-19th century.<ref name="brokhaus_efron">{{cite web | author = Grekov, B.| date =1911 | url = http://www.biografija.ru/biography/edelson-evgenij-nikolaevich.htm|title = Edelson, Yevgeny Nikolayevich| publisher = Russian Biographical Dictionary| access-date = 2015-01-13}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.azlib.ru/e/edelxson_e_n/ Yevgeny Edelson] at Lib.ru (Russian)
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