Leonid Ivanovych Hlibov ( ; 5 March 1827 – 10 November 1893) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, teacher, and civic figure.

Life

Hlibov was born in Veselyi Podil, Khorol county,

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. He graduated from the

Nizhyn Nizhyn (, ; ) is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine along the Oster River. The city is located north-east of the national capital Kyiv. Nizhyn serves as the capital city, administrative center of Nizhyn Raion. It hosts the ...

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in 1855. In 1858 he began to teach at the gymnasia in Chornyi Ostriv and

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. He was active in the

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, published educational books, and contributed to the

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Ukrainian journal ''Osnova''. In 1861 he founded and became editor of the

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''Chernigovskii listok'', in which he published some of his works. In 1863 the

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authorities closed down the paper and banned his works. Hlibov was then fired from his teaching job and was forced to live under police surveillance. From 1867 to his death he was the director of the

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printing house. He died in Chernihiv.

Works

Hlibov wrote over 40 romantic

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in the

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. His poem 'Zhurba' (Sorrow), was used by

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and has become a popular

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.
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His most important and notable works are his 107

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.''Ukraine a History''. Orest Subtelny. University of Toronto Press, 2000. p 304 These are written in the

vernacular Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken language, spoken form of language, particularly when perceptual dialectology, perceived as having lower social status or less Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige than standard language, which is mor ...

and satirize contemporary life and conditions using Ukrainian motifs and

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. Hlibov also wrote

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for children.

References

External links

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Works by Leonid Hlibov at TOU
''(ukrainian)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Hlibov, Leonid 1827 births 1893 deaths People from Poltava Oblast People from Khorolsky Uyezd Poets from the Russian Empire Educators from the Russian Empire Ukrainian male poets Ukrainian editors Ukrainian educators 19th-century Ukrainian poets 19th-century male writers Nizhyn Gogol State University alumni