Dmytro Pylchykov
Dmytro Pawlowytsch Pyltschykow ( Ukrainian Дмитро Павлович Пильчиков ; born October 26 . Jul / 7. November 1821 greg. In the province of Kherson , Russian Empire ; † October 5 jul. / 17th October 1893 greg. In Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire ) was a Ukrainian political and cultural activist.
Life
Dmytro Pylchykow studied until 1843 at the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Vladimir University in Kiev , where he worked as an assistant librarian after completing his studies. In 1846 he met Taras Shevchenko and became a member of the Cyril and Method Brotherhood . Between 1846 and 1864 he was a teacher in the Poltava Cadet Corps.
In the 1860s and 1870s he took an active part in the national democratic movement, promoted the Ukrainian language and culture and was a member of the Hromada in Poltava. From 1870 he was in contact with the leading Galician cultural and political activists and with Mychajlo Drahomanow .
In 1873 he was one of the founders of the Shevchenko Literary Society in Lviv , which later became the Shevchenko Scientific Society .
Dmytro Pylchykow died in 1893 at the age of 71 in Kharkov. He was the father of the physicist Mykola Pylchykow (1857-1908).
Web links
- Biography of Dmytro Pylchykow on histpol.narod.ru (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Pylchykov, Dmytro in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 30, 2017 (English)
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SURNAME | Pylchykow, Dmytro |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pylchykow, Dmytro Pavlovich (full name); Пильчиков, Дмитро Павлович (Ukrainian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian political and cultural activist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1821 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kherson Governorate , Russian Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1893 |
Place of death | Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire |