Osyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych (, 8 August 1834,

Putyla Putyla (; ), formerly Storonets-Putyliv (), is a rural settlement in Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Putyla settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. At the 2001 census, the town's p ...

- 11 January 1888,

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also #Names, other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivt ...

) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator.

Biography

Fedkovych lived in

, 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 Bukovina or ; ; ; ; , ; see also other languages. is a historical region at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe. It is located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains, today divided betwe ...

. 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.

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1834 births 1888 deaths People from Chernivtsi Oblast Journalists from Austria-Hungary Folklorists from Austria-Hungary Poets from Austria-Hungary Ukrainian folklorists Ukrainian translators Ukrainian newspaper editors 19th-century journalists Ukrainian male journalists 19th-century translators 19th-century Ukrainian poets Ukrainian male poets 19th-century male writers Translators of William Shakespeare Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German-language poets {{Ukraine-writer-stub

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