Leonid Mossends

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Leonid Mossends

Leonid Markowytsch Mossends ( Ukrainian Леонід Маркович Мосендз ; * 8 September July / 20 September  1897 greg. In Mohyliw-Podilskyj , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † October 13, 1948 in Blonay , Switzerland ) was a Ukrainian poet, writer Translator and, under the pseudonym Porfyrij Horotak (Ukrainian Порфирій Горотак ) together with Jurij Klen , humorist.

Life

Leonid Mossends was born in 1897 as the son of a government official in Mohyliw-Podilskyj in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Vinnytsia . Between 1911 and 1915 he studied at the teachers' college in Vinnytsia . During the First World War he served as a soldier in the Russian Army on the Romanian front. After demobilization, he worked as a teacher in Hniwan and was active in a leading position at the Proswita until he was drafted into the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic on March 4, 1919 , where he served as a high officer. On October 26, 1919, however, he returned to his teaching post to teach physics and natural sciences between December 1, 1919 and April 1920.

After the demobilization of the Ukrainian army, he fled to Poland in 1920, but returned to Ukraine in 1921 and became involved in Lutsk in the Proswita, which is why he was arrested by the Poles and interned in an internment camp in Kalisz . After his release in May 1922, he moved first to Częstochowa and in the same year to Poděbrady in Czechoslovakia , where he studied from 1923 at the chemical-technological department of the Ukrainian Business Academy, graduated in 1928 as a technology engineer and there as an assistant to Prof. Vasily Nikolayevich Iwanis ( Василий Николаевич Иванис ; 1888–1974) was active. After two years of postgraduate studies at the Polytechnic Institute in Brno , he became a specialist in oil refining and received his doctorate in 1931. He then worked as a civil engineer in Bratislava .

From 1937 he taught first as a teacher at a commercial school in Khust and then until 1939 in Svyava . After the Hungarian occupation of Transcarpathia, he worked as a chemist in Bratislava from 1939 to 1945. He joined the Legion of Ukrainian Nationalists ( Ле́ґія Украї́нських Націоналі́стів (ЛУН) ) and was a member of a group of writers that included Oleh Olschytsch , Yevhen Malanyuk and Jurij Klen . In 1945 he fled to the British zone in Austria and moved first to Innsbruck, then to the city of Seefeld and in December 1946 to Switzerland, where he died at the age of 51 in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Blonay and was buried in the village.

In addition to his poetic and literary activities, he also translated English (e.g. Edgar Allan Poe ), French and German literary works into Ukrainian.

Web links

Commons : Leonid Mossends  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Mosendz, Leonid in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 9, 2019
  2. ↑ entry to Leonid Mossends in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on February 9, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Mossends, Leonid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mossends, Leonid Markowytsch (full name); Horotak, Porfyrij (pseudonym); Мосендз, Леонід Маркович (Ukrainian); Горотак, Порфирій (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet, writer, translator and humorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Mohyliw-Podilskyj , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1948
Place of death Blonay , Switzerland