Ivan Manschura

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Іван Іванович Манжура
Transl. : Ivan Ivanovyč Manžura
Transcr. : Ivan Ivanovich Manschura
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Иван Иванович Манжура
Transl .: Ivan Ivanovič Manžura
Transcr .: Ivan Ivanovich Manschura

Ivan Iwanowytsch Manschura (pseudonym Іван Калічка Ivan Kalitschka ; born October 20, jul. / 1. November  1851 greg. In Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire , † May 3 jul. / 15. May  1893 greg. In Yekaterinoslav , yekaterinoslav governorate , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian ethnographer , folklorist, translator, and poet.

Life

Ivan Manschura was born as the son of a minor civil servant in Kharkov, now Kharkiv in the Ukraine. He lost his mother at an early age and initially lived with his father, from 1865 with his aunt, the wife of Alexander Potebnja . In Kharkiv he attended a grammar school until he was excluded as "unreliable", as well as at the veterinary institute in Kharkiv, which he attended as a freelance listener from 1870 to 1872, which also took away the right to attend another university. He then lived in and around Yekaterinoslav, now the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, and carried out various activities. On long and long hikes, he came together with people from all walks of life and studied their way of life and customs, which was the starting point for his folkloric and ethnographic activity. In 1891 he became a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Anthropology and Ethnography .

In 1876 he was recruited as a volunteer in the Russo-Ottoman War to fight the Turks in Serbia , from which he returned wounded. After his return he worked from 1884 as a journalist for the local press in Yekaterinoslav. After making a name for himself as a folklorist and ethnographer in cultural and scientific circles, he published his first poems in the Steppe newspaper ( Степь ) in 1885 . He published his collection of fairy tales and a collection of Little Russian songs in 1889 at the Kharkov Historical and Philological Society , of which he was accepted as a full member as early as 1887 and which in 1890 acquired his valuable folklore collection of stories, proverbs, etc. ( Сказки, пословицы и т. П. ) published. In 1889 his poetry collection "Epic-lyrical folk songs of the steppe" ( Степові думи та співи Stepowi dumy ta spiwy ) appeared in Saint Petersburg , which among other things contained 34 lyrical poems.

He died at the age of 41 in Yekaterinoslav and was buried in what would later become the "Sevastopol Park", where a memorial dedicated to him was opened on January 23, 1970.

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Manschura left a great folkloric legacy. Mychajlo Drahomanow and Volodymyr Antonowytsch published his notes on oral folklore from 1875 in their collection of historical songs, and Alexander Potebnja, Nikolai Sumzow and Ivan Franko also found his work in the field of ethnography and folklore recognized. He also worked as a translator from Russian and German into the Ukrainian language. He translated books by Heinrich Heine , Jakow Polonski and Nikolai Nekrassow .

He also wrote a total of more than fifty lyrical works, including his most important poetic work, the fairy tale poem Тремсин-богатырь Tremsin-Bogatyr , published in 1890 , a story that described the colorful life of the Zaporozhian Cossacks .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry on Iwan Manschura in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on January 17, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d Article on the life and activities of II Manzhura on the website of the Kharkiv History Museum; accessed on January 18, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d biography of Ivan Manschura in the Library of Ukrainian Literature on ukrlib.com.ua ; accessed on January 17, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Ivan Manschura in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on January 17, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ The Sevastopol Park. In: City of Dnipropetrovsk. Retrieved January 18, 2019 (Russian, original title: Севастопольский парк ).
personal data
SURNAME Manschura, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manschura, Ivan Ivanovich (full name); Манжура, Іван Іванович (Ukrainian); Манжура, Иван Иванович (Russian); Калічка, Іван (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, translator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1893
Place of death Yekaterinoslav , Yekaterinoslav Governorate , Russian Empire