Ivan Kolessa
Ivan Mychajlowytsch Kolessa ( Ukrainian Іван Михайлович Колесса ; * 1864 in Chodowytschi , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † February 8, 1898 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary) was a Ukrainian folklorist and ethnographer .
Life
Ivan Kolessa was born in the village of Chodowice, today's Chodowytschi in the Stryj district of the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast, as the older brother of Oleksandr Kolessa and Filaret Kolessa . He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and later began collecting and publishing Ukrainian folk songs under the influence of Iwan Franko , with whom he corresponded. Ivan Kolessa wrote ethnographic and folk studies, in particular the birth, baptisms, weddings and funerals of the Ukrainian population in the village of Chodowytschi in the Stryj district published in Polish in 1889 and the collection of Galician-Russian folk songs with melodies published in 1901 in Ukrainian . Kolessa died in Lviv and was buried there in the Lychakiv Cemetery .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anniversary of the death of the Ukrainian folklorist and ethnographer Iwan Kolessa at the information agency of the culture industry ; accessed on February 27, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Entry on Iwan Kolessa in the Ukrainian Literature Encyclopedia , Volume 2, pp. 528-543 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Kolessa, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kolessa, Ivan Mychajlowytsch (full name); Колесса, Іван Михайлович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian folklorist and ethnographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chodowytschi , Galicia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1898 |
| Place of death | Lviv , Austria-Hungary |