Mychajlo Chalyj

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Mykhaylo Kornijowytsch Chaly ( Ukrainian Михайло Корнійович Чалий , Russian Михаил Корнеевич Чалый Mikhail Kornejewitsch Chaly ; born September 12 . Jul / 24. September  1816 greg. In Novhorod-Siverskyi , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † February 6 jul. / 19th February  1907 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian educator, social and cultural activist, writer, journalist and biographer Taras Shevchenko .

Life

Mychajlo Tschalyj was born in 1816 in the small town of Novhorod-Siverskyj in the north of what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Chernihiv, the son of an old Cossack family. His father was a minor government official. Mychajlo first attended a private school and in 1828 he switched to the Nowhorod-Siwerskyj high school.

After Chalyj graduated from high school in 1840, he studied from 1840 at the historical-philological faculty of St. Vladimir University in Kiev, which he graduated in 1844. In the same year he began his thirty years of teaching at the grammar school in Nemyriw , where he taught literature for eight years. There he made friends with the painter and art teacher Ivan Soshenko , who taught drawing here. Soshenko aroused interest in Chalyj in his friend Taras Shevchenko, whom he knew from his time in St. Petersburg , and so Chalyj began to study the correspondence between the two. In addition, every year he visited places associated with the name Shevchenko and collected materials on his life and work.

As a teacher of literature, he moved to the Second Kiev High School in 1852, where he became school inspector and later, in the absence of the director, acting headmaster. He also became one of the organizers of Sunday schools in Kiev. From July 1856, his friend Ivan Soshenko, whom he had invited to work here, also taught at the Second Kyiv Gymnasium. In Soshenko's Kiev apartment he met Taras Shevchenko personally in August 1859 and has corresponded with him since then. After Shevchenko's death, Chalyj took an active role in organizing his funeral in Ukraine. Eventually he became the author of the work "Life and Work of Taras Shevchenko", published in 1882, the most comprehensive biographical work on Taras Shevchenko at the time.

In 1861 he went to the grammar school in Bila Tserkva as director and in 1869 he became director of the famous lyceum in Nischyn . As a man of progressive views, he influenced the intelligentsia and his high school students. In 1875 he retired and moved back to Kiev, where he lived in his house at 9 Gogol Street and devoted himself to the literature and the biographies of Shevchenko and Konstantin Ushinsky . From 1882 on he was a member of the editorial team of the magazine Kiew Starina ( Киевская старина , in German "Kiev antiquity"), founded in the same year by Feofan and Petro Lebedynzew , in which he wrote his "Memoirs" in the years 1889 and 1892–1895. and in 1897 "From the correspondence of Taras Shevchenko with various people" published. In the last two years of his life he lived quite isolated in his Kiev house, which he rarely left. He even stayed away from the annual memorial service for Taras Shevchenko, whose attendance he previously considered a duty. He died in 1907 at the age of 90 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

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  1. ↑ a b c Mychajlo Tschalyj on uahistory.com ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b The first biographer of T. Shevchenko - On the 200th birthday of Mychajlo Chalyj National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine - Speeches and events, data number 2 (8), Kiev 2016, pages 58–61; accessed on May 18, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c Mychajlo Tschalyj in the Kiev encyclopedia ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Mychajlo Tschalyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Mychajlo Tschalyj on pidruchniki.com ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Chalyj, Mychajlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chalyj, Mychajlo Kornijowytsch (full name); Чалий, Михайло Корнійович (Ukrainian); Чалый, Михаил Корнеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian educator, social and cultural activist, writer, journalist and biographer Taras Shevchenko
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Novhorod-Siwerskyj , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1907
Place of death Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire