Yevhenia Yaroschynska

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Yevhenia Yaroschynska

Yevhenia Iwaniwna Jaroschynska ( Ukrainian Євгенія Іванівна Ярошинська ); (Born October 18, 1868 in Chunkiv , Bukovina , Austria-Hungary ; † October 21, 1904 in Chernivtsi , Bukowina, Austria-Hungary) was a Ukrainian writer , translator , pedagogue , folklorist and ethnographer .

Life

Yevhenia Yaroshynska was born in the village of Chunkiv in what is now the Sastavna district of the Ukrainian Oblast of Ivano-Frankivsk into the family of a folk teacher. She attended school in Chernivtsi. In 1886 she published her first literary work, like most writers in Bukovina at that time, in German. She came to Ukrainian literature through the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina, "Bucovina", which influenced many artists. In 1892 she began training as a teacher, which she completed in 1896 when she received her apprenticeship certificate. She then taught children in various villages in Bukovina: first in the elementary school in the village of Bridok and later at a school in the village of Raranča , where your father was the school principal . In connection with her work as a teacher, she wrote articles in educational magazines, began developing curricula for village schools and supported the idea of ​​creating a teachers' association. During this time, under Jurij Fedkowytsch's influence , she began collecting and recording folk songs, which were published in 1972 in a collection entitled “Folk songs from and about Transnistria ”. She also took part in the activities of the women's movement in Ukraine. Encouraged by Natalija Kobrynska and Olha Kobyljanska , she wrote numerous articles and gave speeches on the role of women in society. She was also involved in the publication of the second feminist almanac Nasha dolia (Our Fate) by Natalija Kobrynska.

She died of peritonitis in a Chernivtsi hospital in 1904 at the age of 36 and was buried in Chernivtsi.

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In her more than three dozen literary works, she describes scenes from people's lives, personal realistic sketches, stories from the lives of women. She also wrote short stories, essays, several novels and educational children's stories, which were published in Lviv and Vienna , among others .

In prose she succeeded Yuri Fedkowytsch, whose work gave her the impetus for her story “True Love”. He also sent her collection of “Folksongs from and about Transnistria” to Saint Petersburg, where it was awarded a silver medal by the Russian Geographical Society in 1889 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography Yevhenija Jaroschynska in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on May 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature - Yevhenija Jaroschynska (1868-1904) Biographical sketch in Language Lanterns Publications; accessed on May 11, 2017
  3. ^ A b Biography Yevhenija Jaroschynska in the Handbook of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on May 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Yaroshynska, Yevhenia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yaroshynska, Yevhenia Iwaniwna (full name); Ярошинська, Євгенія Іванівна (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, translator, educator, folklorist and ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschunkiw , Bukovina , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1904
Place of death Chernivtsi , Bukovina, Austria-Hungary