Magjan Jumabayev

Mağjan Jumabayev
Born	25 June 1893 Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	19 March 1938 Almaty, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
Nationality	Kazakh

Mağjan Jumabayev (Kazakh: Мағжан Бекенұлы Жұмабаев) was a prominent Qazaq writer and pedagogue, one of the modern Qazaq literature's founders.

From 1905 until 1910 Mağjan Jumabayev was studying in Petropavl madrasah, learning there Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages. 1910 and 1911 were the years when he was studying in Ufa madrasah, where one of the teachers was Galimjan İbragimov, the Volga Tatar classical writer. In 1912 his Qazaq poetry collected with the "Şolpan" name and written with Arabic alphabet was published and right away became popular among the Qazaq intellectuals.

During the summer and winter of 1917 he has been taking part in the creation of Qazaq "Alaş" party and Alaş Orda Qazaq national government at both All-Qazaq congresses as delegate of Akmolinsk Oblast.

Living later in Moscow he translated the works of Lermontov, Koltsov, Balmont, Merezhkovsky, Ivanov, Mamin-Sibiriak, Maksim Gorky, Alexander Blok, Goethe, Heine and other poets into Qazaq language. After the graduation in higher education there in 1927 he returned to Qazaqstan and had been working as teacher.

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