Lukjan Kobylytsia

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Lukjan Kobylytsia

Lukjan Kobylyzja ( Ukrainian Лук'ян Кобилиця ; * 1812 in Putyla , Bukovina district in the Crown Land of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Austrian Empire ; † October 24, 1851 in Gura Humora , Duchy of Bukovina, Austrian Empire) was a Ukrainian social activist and peasant leader. He was the leader of the popular uprisings in Bukovina from 1843 to 1844 and from 1848 to 1849 and 1848 a member of the Austrian Reichstag .

Life

Lukjan Kobylyzja was born to serf parents in Putyla in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Chernivtsi in 1812 . In 1839 he was elected by the peasants as their public representative in order to represent their interests. In response to the ban on the use of forests by farmers in late 1843, the farmers of 22 villages in Bukovina refused to carry out the duties imposed on them as serfs, demanding the establishment of Ukrainian schools, free access to forests and pastures and the granting of the Status of state farmers. In March 1844 the uprising was broken up with the help of government troops and Kobylyzja was arrested and imprisoned.

During the March Revolution , the Bukovinian peasants elected him a member of the newly formed Austrian Reichstag in Vienna , where he stood up for their interests. In November 1848, in response to the limited peasant reform of 1848 in Galicia, Bukovina and Transcarpathia, he led an uprising in the mountain villages of the Vyshnytsia and Storozhynets districts . During this uprising, which ended in the summer of 1849 when troops were deployed against the rebels, forests and meadows, the ownership of which was disputed by the farmers, were confiscated by the rebels and declared their property.

Kobylyzja was arrested in Shabje in April 1850 and died of torture-related illness in 1851 in the prison of Gura Humora in the north-east of what is now Romania .

Honors

Kobylyzja is a popular hero in Bukovina. The Ukrainian poet Jurij Fedkowytsch wrote a poem called Lukjan Kobylyzja , in which he tells his life in the form of a ballad. and Hryhorij Misjun ( Григорій Михайлович Мізюн ; 1903–1963) wrote the drama Lukjan Kobylyzja about him in 1952 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Lukjan Kobylyzja in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 29, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Lukjan Kobylyzja on carpathians.eu ; accessed on May 29, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Folk hero of Bukovina on zbruc.eu ; accessed on May 29, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Entry on Hryhorij Misjun in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on May 29, 2020 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Kobylytsia, Lukjan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кобилиця, Лук'ян (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian social activist, peasant leader and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Putyla , Bukowina , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1851
Place of death Gura Humora , Bukowina , Austrian Empire