Ivan Steschenko
Ivan Matwijowytsch Steschenko ( Ukrainian Іван Матвійович Стешенко * July 12 jul. / 24. July 1873 greg. In Poltava , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † thirtieth July 1918 in Poltava, Ukrainian State ) was a Ukrainian translator, writer and politician .
Life
Born in Poltava in 1873, Steschenko studied from 1892 to 1896 at the historical-philological faculty of St. Vladimir University in Kiev . During his studies he published first literary articles, poems and translations in Lviv newspapers and was active in the Hromada . Politicized by the writings of Mychajlo Drahomanow and the friendship with the Hromada member Mykola Kowalewskyj ( Микола Васильович Ковалевський 1841-1897) he founded the first Ukrainian social democratic circle in 1896 with Lesja Ukrajinka, among others . After graduating, he worked as a teacher at the Kiev women's high school and wrote numerous poems and the drama Masepa . In 1897 he was imprisoned for four months and then banished from Kiev for three years. After the three years that he used for further writing activities, he returned to Kiev and took a leading role in the Ukrainian national movement. He also wrote and published other works, including a biography of Ivan Kotlyarevsky . From 1907 to 1917 he taught literature in several schools in Kiev.
Between June 1917 and January 1918, as Secretary General for Education and Science in the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Central Na Rada, he held the function of Minister of Education of Ukraine and, as such, initiated the Ukrainization of the national curricula and pedagogical training. He also founded the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and the Pedagogical Academy of Ukraine .
He was murdered by strangers while on vacation in his native Poltava. Steschenko was buried with a state funeral in Kiev in the Baikowe Cemetery .
family
Ivan Steschenko was married to the writer Oksana Steschenko (Окса́на Миха́йлівна Стеше́нко, 1875–1942), the daughter of the Ukrainian cultural activist and writer Mychajlo Staryzkyj . He was the father of Yaroslav Steschenko and the actress and translator Iryna Steschenko (1898–1987).
His wife was a writer, translator and teacher. She was arrested with her sister in 1941, deported and died in a Soviet gulag in Kazakhstan. His sister-in-law, the writer Lyudmyla Staryzka-Tschernjachiwska (1868–1941) died during the deportation . Her daughter Weronika Tschernjachiwska (Вероні́ка Олекса́ндрівна Черняхі́вська, 1900–1938) was a poet and was arrested in 1929 and 1938. She was sentenced to death on September 22, 1938 and executed on the same day. The three women are representatives of the "executed rebirth" (ukr. Розстріляне відродження ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Short biography of Ivan Steschenko on the website of the Baikowe Cemetery; accessed on December 6, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Article on Iwan Steschenko in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 6, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steschenko, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steschenko, Ivan Matwijowytsch (full name); Стешенко, Іван Матвійович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian translator, writer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poltava , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1918 |
| Place of death | Poltava , Ukrainian state |