Mato Kosyk

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Mato Kosyk (1852-1940)

Mato Kosyk (born June 18, 1853 in Werben / Wjerbno ; † November 22, 1940 in Albion , Oklahoma ) was a Lower Sorbian poet .

Life

Memorial stone in advertise
Memorial stone in Am Anger 5 in Werben

Kosyk came from a farming family and was able to attend high school after completing elementary school. But he left it in 1873 without a high school diploma and took a job with the railway in Leipzig . During this time he began to write his first poems. In 1877 he returned to Werben and worked there for a few years as a freelance writer, from 1880 also as editor of the Lower Sorbian newspaper Bramborske Nowiny . Since he could not live on the income from his writing activities and because he did not have a high school diploma, he could not study theology as he actually intended, he decided in 1883 to emigrate to the USA. He studied evangelical theology first in Springfield , then in Chicago , was ordained in 1885, and received his first parish in Wellsburg , Iowa . In the following year he returned to Lausitz and tried in vain to find a pastor in Germany. Since the Church refused to recognize his American education, he finally settled in the United States in 1887.

Kosyk then worked in various German-speaking pastors until 1913. In 1890 he married Anna Wehr from Hochberg, in 1891 his only son Georg (Juro) was born, who died in 1915. From 1892 he was again in correspondence with writers from his homeland, which lasted until 1898, and also began to write again. In 1913 he bought a farm in Albion ( Oklahoma ), on which he lived until his death, from 1923 on again in lively exchange with his fellow writers in Lusatia. After the death of his wife in 1929, Kosyk initially lived alone and in 1938 married Wilma Filter, who had been his housekeeper since 1935. Wilma Kosyk returned to Germany after his death, the estate is lost.

Mato Kosyk's poems were a. a. Published in Germany from 1929, printed in Serbski Casnik , edited by Bogumił Šwjela and illustrated by Fritz Lattke .

The complete edition Spise: cełkowny wudawk , edited by Pětš Janaš and Roland Marti, has been published since 2000, of which eight volumes with almost 4,000 printed pages were published by 2012.

The primary school in Briesen was named after him in honor of Kosyk . A memorial stone in advertising commemorates him.

literature

  • Roland Marti (Ed.): Mato Kosyk 1853–1940. Materialije prědneje Kosykoweje Konference. Wjerbno / Werben June 15-18, 2003 (= Writings of the Sorbian Institute, Volume 40). Domowina, Budyšin 2004, ISBN 3-7420-1986-4 (Review by Klaus-Dieter Gansleweit in Niederlausitzer Studien. Issue 32, Cottbus 2005, p. 161, Verlag Regia, ISBN 978-3937899756 )

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personal data
SURNAME Kosyk, Mato
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kossick, Matthew; Kossick, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Advertise (Spreewald)
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1940
Place of death Albion , Oklahoma