Ivan Vahylevych, Jan Wagilewicz, (born 2 September 1811 in Yasen, today in
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,
Austrian Empire - died 10 May 1866 in
Lviv,
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was Ukrainian
Romantic
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poet, philologist, and ethnographer of the Galician revival in
Western Ukraine
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.
Biography
While studying at
University of Lviv and at the
Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv, he associated with
Markiyan Shashkevych
Markiyan 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 th ...
and
Yakiv Holovatsky, and the three of them formed the
Ruthenian Triad
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. Vahylevych neglected his studies at the university frequently in order to make field trips to villages in western Ukraine, where he conducted archeological and ethnographic fieldwork.
Because of his populist activities, cultural nationalist views, and correspondence with scholars in the
Russian Empire, namely
Mikhail Pogodin,
Izmail Sreznevsky
Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky (russian: Измаил Иванович Срезневский; 13 June 1812, Yaroslavl – 21 February 1880, St. Petersburg) was a Russian philologist, Slavist, historian, paleographer, folklorist and writer.
Life
His ...
, and the Ukrainians
Mykhailo Maksymovych
Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych ( uk, Михайло Олександрович Максимович; 3 September 1804 – 10 November 1873) was a famous professor in plant biology, Ukrainian historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Co ...
and
Osyp Bodiansky
Osip Maksimovich Bodyansky (russian: Осип Максимович Бодянский, uk, Осип Максимович Бодянський; 1808–1877) was a notable Russian Empire, Russian Imperial Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent who st ...
, he suffered harassment by the church and Austrian civil authorities. In 1846, he was ordained. He served as a pastor in Nestanychi for a while. During the
Revolution of 1848–1849 in the Habsburg monarchy he supported a democratic Polish-Ukrainian political federation. Being a democratic Polish-Ukrainian political federation sympathizer, he took up the editorship of Dnewnyk Ruskij, the weekly run by the Ruthenian Congress.
Later that year he left the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in protest against the church hierarchy's sanctions against him and converted to
Lutheranism. Ostracized by Catholic Ukrainians and by the Hierarchy of the Church, he was unable to find steady work until 1862, when he was appointed to the city archives in Lviv.
Literary works
During the period from 1829 to 1841, Vahylevych wrote poetry in Polish. He signed himself Jan Wagilewicz.
In 1836, he co-edited ''Rusalka Dnistrovaia'', the first
Galician Ukrainian almanac. He published articles on some bizarre, albeit popular, subjects like vampires and witches. He also authored important articles on the
Hutsuls (1838–9) and the
Boykos
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(1841), which were published in the journal of the
Czech Museum in Prague.
See also
*
Ukrainian literature
*
Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas
References
External links
Jan Wagilewicz: Grammatyka jezyka maloruskiego w Galicyi. Lwów 1845
1811 births
1866 deaths
People from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
Lutheran poets
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Ukrainian Protestants
Converts to Lutheranism from Roman Catholicism
Ukrainian philologists
Ukrainian poets
Ukrainian ethnographers
19th-century poets
19th-century Lutherans
Ukrainian writers in Polish
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