Kostantyn Mychalchuk

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Kostantyn Mychalchuk

Kostyantyn Petrowytsch Mychaltschuk ( Ukrainian Костянтин Петрович Михальчук , Russian Константин Петрович Михальчук Konstantin Petrovich Mikhalchuk * December 21, 1840 . Jul / 2. January  1841 greg. In Sosulynzi , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire , † March 7 jul. / March 20  1914 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian linguist and ethnographer .

Life

Kostyantyn Mychalchuk was born in the village of Sosulynzi ( Зозулинці ) in what is now Kosjatyn Raion in the Ukrainian Vinnytsia Oblast . He studied between 1859 and 1861 at the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Vladimir University in Kiev. Because of his activities as a Ukrainophile, he was persecuted by the authorities and placed under house arrest on his mother's farm in 1863. From 1873 he lived in Kiev again and worked until the end of his life as the office manager of the Society of Kiev Breweries. He was a member of the Kiev Hromada , the Ukrainian Scientific Society in Kiev ( Украї́нське науко́ве товари́ство "УНТ"), the Historical Society of Chronicler Nestor and the Scientific Society Shevchenko . He was also a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and published articles in newspapers in Kiev and Lviv under various pseudonyms .

Mychalchuk was the founder of scientific Ukrainian dialectology . A collection of philological articles dedicated to him was published in Kiev in 1915. His selected works were published in 1991.

Web links

Commons : Kostjantyn Mychaltschuk  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. entry to Kostyantyn Mychaltschuk in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 8, 2018
  2. entry to Kostyantyn Mychaltschuk in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on February 8, 2018 (Ukrainian)