Yuri Fedkovych
Ossyp-Yuriy Fedkovych ( Ukrainian Осип Юрій Федькович , Russian Осип-Юрий Адальбертович Федькович * 8. August 1834 in Storonetz-Putilla , Northern Bukovina ; † 11. January 1888 in Czernowitz ) was an Austrian writer who mainly in Ukrainian , but also wrote in German . The National Jurij Fedkowytsch University of Chernivtsi is named after him.
Life
Fedkowytsch was the son of Adalbert Hordynskyj and the daughter of an Orthodox priest. Adalbert was a Ukrainian Polish nobleman and estate administrator. At his request, Fedkowytsch was baptized as a Roman Catholic as Ossip-Dominik . Later he converted to the Greek Orthodox faith and took the first name Jurij .
First, Fedkowytsch received private lessons from his uncle's family in the neighboring village of Kisselitze. From 1846 to 1848 he attended the German secondary school in Chernivtsi. At the age of 14 he went to Moldova , where he worked as a surveyor and pharmacist in Jassy and Piatra Neamț . Here he wrote his first German poems . In 1851 he became friends with the German artist Rudolf Rothkähl . In 1852 he obeyed his father's wishes and reported to the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 41 , which was mainly recruited from Bukovinian and Galician Ukrainians. In 1859 he took part in the Sardinian War . He wrote his first Ukrainian poem "Night Camp" , which reflects his homesickness. He soon returned to Chernivtsi, where his father had also settled. He made friends with Ernst Rudolf Neubauer , who became his literary advisor. After an unfulfilled love, he discovered the work of Taras Shevchenko with the help of Galician friends . It strengthened his intention to become a Ukrainian poet. In a brochure published by him in Lviv , some poems appeared in 1861. The following year he published his first Ukrainian volume "Poems by Joseph Fedkowytsch" .
Because of an eye disease, he took his leave as a lieutenant in 1863 and returned to his home village of Putyla. For a time he was mayor there, and later also as school inspector in the Wiznitz district . In 1865 Czernowitz published his first German volume "Gedichte" . At the same time he was working on the German and Ukrainian versions of his great Dowbusch drama and wrote many poems and stories.
Invited by the Ukrainian cultural association Proswita , he came to Lviv for a few months in 1872 as editor of the folk books. Back in Putyla, he was visited by the famous Ukrainian scientist and publicist Mychajlo Drahomanow , who published his stories in book form in Kiev .
After the death of his father, Fedkowytsch finally moved to Chernivtsi in 1876. In 1882 his next German-language volume was published, “Am Czeremusch. Songs of a Uzulen ” . His old interest in astrology found expression in an extensive German-language treatise of around 1000 pages, which has remained unpublished to this day.
In the mid-1880s, with the revival of national aspirations among Ukrainians, Fedkovich increased his cultural and literary activities. He became a member of the “Ruska Besida” cultural association and founded the first Ukrainian newspaper “Bukowyna” in Chernivtsi . He remained its editor and publisher until his death.
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Ukrainian poems and stories are the most valuable part of the estate. They are “imbued with the inimitable popular feeling and genuine national spirit” (Rychlo, Liubkivskyj 2009). His translations and revisions of world literature ( Shakespeare ) and German classical music ( Goethe , Schiller , Uhland , Heine ) are commendable . Some of his poems have been a. set to music by Mychajlo Werbyzkyj .
After Fedkowytsch's death Ossyp Makowej undertook a multi-volume work edition and wrote an extensive biography.
Honors
In 1945, a Fedkowytsch Museum was set up in Chernivtsi . The National University of Chernivtsi bears his name today.
source
- Peter Rychlo , Oleg Liubkivskyj: Czernowitz City of Literature , 2nd, improved edition. Chernivtsi 2009, pp. 37–43.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jurij Fedkowytsch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Verbytsky, Mykhailo in the online encyclopedia of Ukraine; accessed on May 20, 2016 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fedkowytsch, Jurij |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fedkowytsch, Ossyp-Jurij (full name); Федько́вич, О́сип Ю́рій (Ukrainian); Федькович, О́сип-Ю́рий Адальбе́ртович (Russian); Fedkowicz, Ossyp-Jurij |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Storonetz-Putilla , Northern Bukovina |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1888 |
| Place of death | Chernivtsi |