Mykola Lukasch

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Микола Олексійович Лукаш
Transl. : Mykola Oleksijovyč Lukaš
Transcr. : Mykola Oleksijowytsch Lukasch

Mykola Oleksijowytsch Lukasch (born December 17, 1919 in Krolewez , Ukrainian People's Republic , † August 29, 1988 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian translator , linguist and polyglot .

Life

Lukasch was born into a Ukrainian family and showed his linguistic talent as a child. At the age of seven he spoke German , English and French .

In 1937 he began studying at the History Faculty of Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev . After completing his studies, he worked in the archives, where he translated the documents about the Kolijivshchyna uprising from Latin and Polish into Ukrainian. During the Second World War he stayed in Kharkiv . There he taught German and French at the Kharkiv Pedagogical Institute. During his stay, he wrote a translation of Goethe's Faust , which was published in 1955. Since 1958 he lived in Kiev .

After Ivan Dzjuba was sentenced to 5 years in prison and 5 years in exile for his book “Internationalism or Russification?” In 1973, Lukasch stood up for Djsuba. He suggested that he be sentenced instead of Djuba because Djuba was consumptive. For this Lukasch was expelled from the National Association of Writers of Ukraine .

When Djuba was allowed to publish his works, Mykola Baschan and Oles Honchar stood up to Vladimir Shcherbitzki , the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine , for Lukash to be able to publish his works. Shcherbitsky replied that the Communist Party had nothing against Lukasch and that it was a question for the Writers' Union of Ukraine to upgrade its membership. The situation changed in 1979 when Vitaly Korotytsch Lukasch suggested translating some poems from Hungarian into Ukrainian for the magazine “Witschyzna” . Lukasch was only reassigned to the National Writers' Union in 1986, when he was already ill. Most of his works were only published after his death. He was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery in Kiev.

Streets in Kiev , Lviv and Sumy bear his name.

Lukasch spoke over 20 foreign languages and wrote works in more than 12 languages.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ decision on the street renaming. "Chreschatyk" magazine, accessed January 31, 2017 (Ukrainian).
  2. ↑ Lemberger Staßliste. Retrieved June 28, 2017 (Ukrainian).
  3. ↑ Унікальний перекладач - UAHistory . In: UAHistory . December 18, 2015 ( uahistory.com [accessed June 28, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Lukasch, Mykola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лукаш, Микола Олексійович (Ukrainian); Lukasch, Mykola Oleksijowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian translator, linguist and polyglot
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Krolevets , Ukrainian People's Republic
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1988
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR