Mykola Daschkewytsch
Mykola Pawlowytsch Daschkewytsch ( Ukrainian Микола Павлович Дашкевич ; born August 4, jul. / 16th August 1852 greg. In Beschiw , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire , † January 20 jul. / 2. February 1908 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian historian, literary critic, and folklorist.
Life
Mykola Daschkewytsch was born in Beschiw ( Бежів ) near Tschernjachiw as the son of a priestly family in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast Zhytomyr . From 1868 he studied history and philology at the University of Kiev , where he worked as a lecturer and later as a professor of Western literature after completing his studies.
Between 1899 and 1904 and from 1905 to 1908 he headed the Historical Nestor Society and from 1907 he was a full member of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . He wrote a number of works on Ukrainian, Russian and Western writers. In these works he investigated literary phenomena using a historical-cultural and comparative-historical approach. His main work was about the identity and originality of Ukrainian literature , in which he emphasized the independence of Ukrainian literature and its close ties to Western literature and rejected its dependence on Russian literature.
literature
- Андрій Чуткий: Микола Павлович Дашкевич (1852–1908). Темпора, Київ 2008, ISBN 978-966-8201-40-0 (Ukrainian). (Title transcribed: Andrij Tschutkij: Mykola Pawlowytsch Daschkewytsch (1852–1908). Tempora, Kiev 2008. - Extensive recent biography, 526 p. With ill.).
Web links
- Entry on Mykola Daschkewytsch in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- Literature by and about Mykola Daschkewytsch in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Mykola Daschkewytsch at the "Institute for History of Ukraine National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine"; accessed on April 23, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ entry to Dashkevych, Mykola in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 23, 2017 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dashkevych, Mykola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daschkewytsch, Mykola Pavlovytsch (full name); Дашкевич, Микола Павлович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian historian, literary critic and folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beschiw , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1908 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire |