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Vasyl Shchurat
Vasyl Shchurat (; 24 August 1871 – 27 April 1948) was a Ukrainian educator, literary critic, poet and translator. In 1895, he completed a full translation of "Song of Roland" into Ukrainian. He was the author of the best verse translation of "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" into modern Ukrainian before 1914 (1907). He was the father of the scholar and literary critic . Biography He was a native of the village of Vysloboky in the Lviv Oblast. He completed his studies in Slavic philology in 1895 at the universities of Lviv and Vienna (receiving his doctorate from Vatroslav Jagić), and he passed his pedagogical exam at the Chernivtsi University in 1898. Ivan Franko introduced Shchurat to the literary, scientific, civic, and journalistic life of Lviv and Vienna. Shchurat remained under his influence until 1896. Shchurat published articles, poetic translations, and original poems in the Austrian, Polish, Czech, and Western Ukrainian press. He was a co-editor of the newspaper "Bukovy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vysloboky
Vysloboky () is a village in the Zhovtantsi rural hromada of the Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. History On 19 July 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform and liquidation of the Kamianka-Buzka Raion Kamianka-Buzka Raion () was a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Kamianka-Buzka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lv ..., the village became part of the Lviv Raion. Religion * Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God (1762, wooden) Notable residents * (1871–1948), Ukrainian teacher, literary critic, poet and translator References Sources * Villages in Lviv Raion {{Lviv-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filaret Kolessa
Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, from 1929, and the founder of Ukrainian ethnomusicology, ethnographic musicology. Biography Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa was born on 17 July 1871 in the Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galician village of Tatarske, now the village of Pishchany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. He studied at the University of Vienna under the composer Anton Bruckner from 1891 to 1892, and completed his studies at the University of Lviv, Lviv University in 1896. Filaret taught in high schools in Lviv, Stryi, and Sambir. He worked with the composer Mykola Lysenko, and the writers Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka. In 1918, he defended his Thesis, dissertation at the University of Vienna and received the title Doctor of Philology. He studied the rhythms of Ukrainian folk music, Ukr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his '' Odes'' as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses ('' Satires'' and '' Epistles'') and caustic iambic poetry ('' Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko
Hryhorii Fedorovych Kvitka-Osnovianenko (; 29 November 1778 – 20 August 1843) was a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright. Founder of Ukrainian classicist prose. He was born in the vicinity of Kharkiv. Life and work Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko was born in 1778 in the village of , Sloboda Ukraine Governorate (now within the city of Kharkiv), to a family of Ukrainian nobility. He adopted the pen name "Osnovianenko," a reference to the village of his birth, when he embarked on his literary career. In 1812, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko begins his social activities. He was appointed the director of a new regular lay theatre open in Kharkiv. Kvitka-Osnovianenko carried his love to theatre through all his life. Later this feeling made him write theatre drama works. In 1841, he wrote his marvellously interesting "Kharkiv Theatre History".kharkov.vbelous.net/english/famous/fam-art/kvitka.htm Kvitka-Osnovianenko was one of the earliest proponents of Ukrainian as a literary l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Samiilenko
Volodymyr Ivanovych Samiilenko (; – 12 August 1925) was a Ukrainian poet, satirist, dramatist, and translator. Samiilenko was best noted as a satirist for his combination of poetry and political humour, and he was praised by intellectual leader Ivan Franko for his usage of lyricism. Born in modern-day Poltava Oblast to a serf and a landowner, Samiilenko was a polyglot, and began his career in literature and translation while studying in gymnasium. While a student at Saint Vladimir Imperial University of Kiev, Samiilenko became involved with several groups supporting the Ukrainian national revival. Although his works were barred from publication in the Russian Empire, they were frequently published in neighbouring Austria-Hungary, where they received critical acclaim. Samiilenko supported the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence and fled west to Poland after the Soviet advance, but returned to the country in the last year of his life. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriy Fedkovych
Osyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych (, 8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator. Biography Fedkovych lived in Chernivtsi, where he was a closed associate of Rudolf Neubauer, the editor of ''Bukowina'', the first German literary supplement in the city, and also the creator of the German language literary circle in Chernivtsi. He edited the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina. In 1989 Chernivtsi University The Chernivtsi National University (named after Yuriy Fedkovych, full official title Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, ) is a public university in the city of Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine. One of the leading Ukrainian institutio ... was renamed Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in his memory. Works * ' The soldier's daughter'. Translated by Roma Franko. In Sonia Morris, ed., ''From days gone by: selected prose fiction'', Toronto: Language Lanterns Publications, 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Kotliarevsky
Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky (; – ) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright, and social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. His main work is the mock-heroic poem '' Eneida''. Biography Kotliarevsky was born on in the Ukrainian city of Poltava in the family of clerk Petro Kotliarevsky. The Kotliarevskys belonged to the Ukrainian nobility but were not wealthy. They owned a small estate in Poltava and a plot of land nearby. After studying at the Poltava Theological Seminary (1780–1789), he worked as a tutor for the gentry at rural estates, where he became familiar with Ukrainian folk life and the peasant vernacular. He served in the Imperial Russian Army between 1796 and 1808 in the Siversky Karabiner Regiment. Kotliarevsky participated in the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) as a staff-captain, during which the Russian troops laid the siege to the city of Izmail. In 1808 he retired from the Army. In 1810 he became the trustee of an institution fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panteleimon Kulish
Panteleimon Oleksandrovych Kulish (; 7 August 1819 – 14 February 1897) was a Ukrainian writer, critic, poet, folklorist, and translator. Life Panteleimon Kulish was born 7 August 1819 in Voronizh (now Sumy Oblast) into an impoverished Cossack gentry family. His mother, Kateryna Ivanivna, spoke exclusively Ukrainian and taught her son numerous folk songs, tales and legends. After completing only five years at the Novhorod-Siverskyi gymnasium, where he got acquainted with classical works of Russian literature and folklore, Kulish enrolled at Kyiv University in 1837 but was not allowed to finish his studies because he was not a noble. Thanks to the protection of Mikhail Yuzefovich and Mykhailo Maksymovych, in 1840 he obtained a teaching position in Lutsk, where he wrote his first historical novel in Russian, ''Mykhailo Charnyshenko, or Little Russia Eighty Years Ago'' (2 vols, 1843). In 1843–45, Kulish taught in Kyiv and studied Ukrainian history and ethnography. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markiian Shashkevych
Markiian Semenovych Shashkevych (; November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – June 7, 1843 in Novosilky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of the literary revival in Right-bank Ukraine. Shashkevych's parents were Simon Shaskevych (Szaszkiewicz) and Elizabeth Audykowska, who was the daughter of Rev. Romanus Audykowski, the Greek Catholic parish priest in Pidlyssia. In 1832, Shashkevych and fellow students organized a group aimed at the rise of the Ukrainian dialect free of Church Slavonic and alien 'styles' up to the literary language. He graduated from the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary at University of Lviv in 1838 and worked as a priest in the rural Lwow powiat. During his studies he met Yakiv Holovatsky and Ivan Vahylevych, with whom he formed the Ruthenian Triad (aka ''Ruska Triitsia''). The activities of the Shashkevych circle constituted not only a litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and prose (nine novellas, a diary, and his autobiography) in Russian language, Russian, making him one of many iconic figures which belong to several Slavic language cultures. The town of Aktau in Kazakhstan was named after Shevchenko in the period of Soviet authority. His literary heritage, in particular the poetry collection ''Kobzar (poetry collection), Kobzar'', is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and to some degree also of the modern Ukrainian language. Life Childhood and youth Taras Shevchenko was born on in the village of Moryntsi, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire, about 20 years after the third partitions of Poland, partiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praying Of Daniel The Immured
The Prayer of Daniil Zatochnik, also translated as The Supplication of Daniel the Exile or Praying of Daniel the Immured (; ), is an Old East Slavic text created by the Pereyaslavl-born writer Daniil Zatochnik during the 13th century (estimated time 1213–1236).''Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old East Slavic Literature
Old East Slavic literature, also known as Old Russian literature, is a collection of literary works of Kievan Rus', Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic. It is a general term that unites the common literary heritage Belarusian literature#History, of Belarus, Russian literature, Russia, and Ukrainian literature, Ukraine of the ancient period. In terms of genre construction, it has a number of differences from medieval European literature. The greatest influence on the literature of ancient Rus' was exerted by Polish literature#middle ages, old Polish and Medieval Serbian literature, old Serbian literature. Most of the monuments of Old East Slavic literature have been preserved in the form of manuscripts. The most common type of manuscript was literary collections. Notebooks written by a single scribe could then be bound by the scribe or binder himself. Such collections ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
