Oleksa Stefanowytsch

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Олекса Коронатович Стефанович
Transl. : Oleksa Koronatovyč Stefanovyč
Transcr. : Oleksa Koronatowytsch Stefanowytsch
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Олекса Коронатович Стефанович
Transl .: Oleksa Koronatovič Stefanovič
Transcr .: Oleksa Koronatowitsch Stefanowitsch
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Oleksa Koronatowytsch Stefanowytsch ( English Oleksa Stefanovych ; * 23 September July / 5 October  1899 greg. In Myljatyn , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire ; † January 4, 1970 in Buffalo , United States ) was a Ukrainian poet and literary critic .

Life

Oleksa Stefanowytsch was born in Myljatyn ( Милятин ) in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast Rivne , Rajon Ostroh as the son of an Orthodox priest and graduated from the spiritual school in Klewan in 1914 . He then attended the Volhyn Theological Seminary ( Волинську духовну семінарію ) in Zhytomyr , which he completed in 1919. In 1920/21 he worked as a village school teacher. In 1922 he emigrated to the Czech city of Prague , where he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University until 1928 , where he defended his dissertation in philosophy in 1930. Between 1928 and 1930 he taught at the Philosophical Faculty of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague . In Prague he took part in the social and cultural life of the Ukrainian emigrants who gathered here. The Ukrainian writers Oleksandr Oles , Jewhen Malanyuk , Spyrydon Cherkassenko and Oleh Olschytsch supported him in his work as a poet. From 1939 to 1941 he worked as a tutor. Before the Red Army marched into Prague, he fled to West Germany, where he initially lived in a camp for displaced persons. From there he emigrated to Buffalo in the US state of New York in 1949 and worked there in a factory until his retirement and from 1962 as a teacher at a Ukrainian Orthodox Sunday school. He died in Buffalo at the age of 70 and was buried in St. Andrew's Cemetery in South Bound Brook , New Jersey .

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The imaginative system of Stefanovych's texts is unusually rich. Its lyrical heroes observe images of past events and the present. Although he belongs to the “Prague School” of Ukrainian poetry , his poems lacked the characteristic voluntarism of the works of the other members.

In Prague he published the poetic collections Poesiji ( Поезії , 1927) and Stefanos I ( Стефанос І. 1938). A posthumous edition of his collected works, including previously unpublished Stefanos II. ( Стефанос ІІ. ) Kinezswitnje ( Кінецьсвітнє ) and Frahmenty ( Фрагменти ) appeared in 1975 in the Canadian Toronto .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile Oleksa Stefanowytsch on ukrcenter.com ; accessed on February 7, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b short biography on info-library.com.ua ; accessed on February 7, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Stefanovych, Oleksa in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 7, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c Biography of Oleksa Stefanowytsch in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on February 7, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Stefanowytsch, Oleksa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stefanowytsch, Oleksa Koronatowytsch (full name); Стефанович, Олекса Коронатович (Ukrainian); Stefanovych, Oleksa (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mylyatyn , Volyn Governorate
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1970
Place of death Buffalo , United States