Vasyl Dovhovych (1783,
Zolotarovo - December 13, 1849,
Khust
Khust (, ; ; ; ; ; ) is a city located on the Khustets River in Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine. It is near the сonfluence of the Tisa and Rika Rivers. It serves as the administrative center of Khust Raion. Population:
Khust was the capi ...
) () is a
Ukrainian and
Rusyn philosopher, linguist, poet,
Transcarpathian academic, and Priest of the Greek Catholic Church.
Biography
He was born in the village of
Zolotarovo,
Khust district, in March 1783, (the exact date of birth has not yet been established) in the family of peasants.
He received his secondary education in the city of
Velikiy Varadyn (now Oradea in Romania).
Here he tutored, and his student was the daughter of the late chief notary of the city, Agnes Wieser. With her help, the talented student mastered the Hungarian language and dedicated a number of lyrical poems to Agnes. But the poet's love was hopeless, and it is not by chance that philosophical notes burst into his work. Along with poems in Hungarian, he continued to write in Latin, and here for the first time he created the poem "Union of Love".
Dovhovych received his higher theological education in the city of
Trnava in Slovakia, and completed it at the
Uzhhorod Theological Seminary.
In Trnava, Dovhovych actively wrote poems in Latin and was fond of philosophy. He specially studied the German language in order to read Kant's philosophical works in the original . After a 14-year journey around the world, he returned to
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod (, ; , ; , ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality on the Uzh, Uzh River in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistan ...
where, after graduating from the seminary, he married Hanna Lyakhovych and set out on the path of a priest. From 1811 to 1824 he lived in the village of Dovge in the Irshav region, where he took the pseudonym Dovhovych. From 1824 to 1828 he worked in the village of
Velyki Luchki in the
Mukachevo
Mukachevo (, ; , ; see name section) is a city in Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine. It is situated in the valley of the Latorica River and serves as the administrative center of Mukachevo Raion. The city is a rail terminus and highway junct ...
region, and from 1828 to 1844 in Mukachevo itself.
In 1831, he became the first among the region's scientists to become a corresponding member of the newly created
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...
for scientific works on history, ethnography, and theology.
In 1832 he organized his poems into a collection called "Poems of Vasyl Dovhovych", which contains 19 poems in Ukrainian, 41 in Hungarian, and 131 in Latin. This handwritten collection of poems by V. Dovhovych was first published in 1982 in the Scientific Collection of the Museum of Ukrainian Culture in
Svydnik, Slovakia. But all his works, both poetic and scientific, have not yet been translated into Ukrainian. Dovhovych is the initiator of Latin poetry in Transcarpathia.
He died in Khust on December 14, 1849, and was buried on Zamkova Gora (castle hill) near the
Khust Castle
The Khust Castle (; ) is an abandoned castle located in the city of Khust in Zakarpattia Oblast (Oblasts of Ukraine, province) in western Ukraine.
The former Hungarian castle lies on a 150-meter high mountain near the center of the city.
The con ...
.
Literature
* ''Й. О. Дзендзелівський.'' Довгович Василь //
Українська мова: Енциклопедія. — Киев: Українська енциклопедія, 2000. ISBN 966-7492-07-9
* Мацинський І. Кін. XVIII — перша пол. XIX ст. та життя і діяльність Василя Довговича. // Науковий збірник Музею української культури в Свиднику, т. 10. Пряшів, 1982;
* Малицький В. Мудрець із гір Карпатських. // Наука і культура. Україна, в. 18. К., 1984.
References
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People from Zakarpattia Oblast
People from the Kingdom of Hungary
People from Carpathian Ruthenia
1783 births
1849 deaths