Ivan Kyprijan

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Ivan Kyprijan

Father Iwan Franzischekowytsch Kyprijan ( Ukrainian Іван Францішекович Кипріян ; born October 27, 1856 in Sokal , Galicia , Austrian Empire ; † 1924 (other sources after 1934) in the Siberian Gulag , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian activist and composer, musicologist, spiritual director, and musicologist of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .

Life

Ivan Kyprijan was born in the Galician city of Sokal in what is now the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast . In 1879 he graduated from a grammar school in Lviv and then attended the theological seminary in Przemyśl , where he graduated in 1883 and was then ordained a priest . In 1882 he also attended the theological seminary in Lemberg.

After his ordination he was pastor of the Catholic parish in Dobromyl until 1884 and directed the choir in Lubaczów parallel to this office . He was then from 1884 to 1888 pastor in Shumyach in today's Turka district , where he also worked as a conductor and choir director. Between 1888 and 1919 he was the pastor of the parish in Nemyriv . In 1889 he opened a reading room there to promote Ukrainian literature , which from 1895 was under the auspices of Proswita . He was a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Party and was elected chairman of the Ruska rada ( Руська рада ) in the Rawa-Ruska district in 1900 . He also took part in the elections for the Austrian House of Representatives for the electoral district of Galicia . In 1905 he was first deputy head and later head of the Proswita in Rawa-Ruska . Politically, he was in opposition to the Russophile movement in Galicia .

Between 1880 and 1885 he was the author of several musical textbooks in which he wrote, among other things, on Ukrainian musical terminology. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom in Galicia, he wrote the march " За Русь " (German: "For the Rus ") in March 1898 . He also published the “Scores for Church Choirs” in 1883, the “Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great ” in Lviv in 1893 and “The Church Songbook for School Children” in 1910. The folk songs he collected flowed into the folk song collection Rusko-narodni halyzki melodiji published between 1905 and 1912 by Porfyrij Baschanskyj ( Порфирій Іванович Бажанський 1836–1920) .

During the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919/20 he was corps chaplain of the 1st Corps of the Ukrainian-Galician Army of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic . After the war was lost, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia, initially out of fear of the Polish authorities .

In the early 1920s he was arrested by the Soviet authorities and taken to a gulag in Siberia . There he was exposed to hunger, illness, abuse and torture by the Bolsheviks . Nevertheless, he looked after the imprisoned children of the "enemies of the people", was the confessor of the inmates and gave the dying sacraments to the dying . After the guards locked 20 children in a cage in the freezing cold and shot them the next day, Kyprijan tried to warm and comfort the desperate children. He prayed with them and died, along with the children, from freezing to death.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zukrowi anhelyky dlja anheljat Background: the life of Iwan Kyprijan  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on May 21, 2017 (Ukrainian)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ratushniak.te.ua  
  2. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Iwan Kyprijan in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on May 21, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  3. ^ OOB of Ukrainian Galician Army I Corps ; accessed on May 21, 2017 (English)
  4. ↑ a b Heroic deed of Father Kyprijan in vglos.com.ua of September 10, 2016; accessed on May 21, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Kyprijan, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kyprijan, Ivan Franzischekowytsch (full name); Кипріян, Іван (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian conductor, composer, musicologist, socio-political activist and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Sokal , Galicia , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1934
Place of death Gulag , Siberia , Soviet Union