Amvrosi Metlynskyi
Amwrossij Lukjanowytsch Metlynskyj ( Ukrainian Амвросій Лук'янович Метлинський , Russian Амвросий Лукьянович Метлинский Amwrossi Lukjanowitsch Metlinski , pseudonym A. Mohyla * 1814 in Sary , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire , † July 17 jul. / 29. July 1870 greg. In Yalta , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian anthropologist , ethnographer, folklorist, translator , publisher, and poet .
Life
Amwrossij Metlynskyj was born as the son of noble parents on the family estate in the village of Sary ( Сари ) in today's Hadjach Raion in the Ukrainian Poltava Oblast . He studied at the Institute of Philology of the Imperial University of Kharkov . After graduating in 1835, he continued to work at the university; in the years between 1843 and 1849 as associate professor. After defending his dissertation, he received the degree of full professor of Slavic-Russian philology in 1850 and in the same year moved to St. Vladimir University in Kiev, where he taught the history of Russian literature until 1854. He then moved back to Kharkov University where he was again active as a professor, but gave up teaching in 1858 due to constant health problems and censorship.
After 1858 Metlynskyj lived in Geneva and in the Crimea in the cities of Simferopol and Yalta . He suffered from hypochondria and shot himself with a revolver on June 17, 1870 in Yalta during an attack of melancholy, whereupon he died on July 29 of the effects of the gunshot wound. He was buried in Yalta.
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Under his pseudonym A. Mohyla , he published the poetry collection Dumky i pisni ta shche deschtscho ( Думки і пісні та ще дещо ; German: thoughts and songs and some other things ) in 1839 . Some of his poems were reprinted in the almanacs Molodyk ( Молодик ) and Snip ( Сніп ). Furthermore, in 1848 he published an anthology of Kharkiv poet Juschny russki sbornik ( Южный русский сборник ; German: South Russian anthology ), which also contained works by Mychajlo Petrenko and Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnovyanenko . His nostalgia prompted him to collect Ukrainian folk songs, which he published in the Narodnyje yuzhnorusskije pesni ( Народные южнорусские песни ; German: South Russian folk songs ) in 1854 with numerous previously unpublished material.
As a poet he belonged to the "Kharkiv romantic school". The main motif of his poetry was the nostalgic idealization of the past Ukrainian beauty. Assuming that there would be no Ukrainian renaissance, he placed his hopes in Russia and turned to the ideas of Pan-Slavism . Metlynskyj's work contributed to the enrichment of the poetic language as well as to the development of new genres of poetry ( sonnet , ballad ) in the Ukrainian language.
He translated literature from Polish , Serbian , Czech , Slovak and German into Ukrainian.
Web links
- Entry on Amwrossi Lukjanowitsch Metlinski in Brockhaus-Efron (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article on Amwrossij Metlynskyj in uahistory ; accessed on May 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Entry on Amvrossij Metlynskyj in the encyclopedia of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev ; accessed on May 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c Entry on Amwrossij Metlynskyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on May 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ entry to Metlynsky, Amvrosii in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 8, 2019
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| SURNAME | Metlynskyj, Amvrossij |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Metlynskyj, Amwrossij Lukjanowytsch (full name); Mohyla, A .; Метлинський, Амвросій Лук'янович (Ukrainian); Метлинский, Амвросий Лукьянович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian anthropologist, ethnographer, folklorist, translator, publisher and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sary , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1870 |
| Place of death | Yalta , Russian Empire |