Oleksandr Kolessa

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Oleksandr Kolessa

Oleksandr Mychailowytsch Kolessa ( Ukrainian Олександр Михайлович Колесса ; born April 12, 1867 in Chodowice , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † May 23, 1945 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Ukrainian literary scholar , ethnographer , linguist and politician.

Life

Oleksandr Kolessa was born in the village of Chodowice, today's Chodowytschi in the Stryj district of the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast . After graduating from high school in Stryj in 1888 , he studied Ukrainian, Slavic and classical philology at the University of Lemberg . He also studied at the universities of Munich and Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1894 at Vatroslav Jagić at the University of Vienna Dr. phil. A year later he completed his habilitation in Ukrainian language and literature at the Chernivtsi University .

From 1895 he taught first as a private lecturer, from February 1, 1898 as assistant professor and two years later until 1918 as a full professor of Ukrainian studies at the University of Lemberg. From 1903 to 1905 he was also Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Lviv University. In 1899 he became a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society . From 1902 he was a member of the Austrian Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna. In 1906 he was the founder of the first Ukrainian adult education center in Lviv.

After the Reichsrat election in 1907 he was a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Party in the XI. and XII. Legislative period (1907 / 1911–1918) Deputy for the district of Galicia 69 in the Chamber of Deputies of the Austrian Imperial Council and in this position campaigned for the educational rights of Ukrainians, such as the right to a Ukrainian university. In Vienna he was also co-founder and vice-president of the Ukrainian Cultural Council in 1915. 1921 headed the diplomatic mission of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Rome .

After the loss of Ukrainian independence, he emigrated to Prague. There he was a central figure among the Ukrainian emigrants and became one of the founders of the Ukrainian Free University , at which he was also professor and its rector in 1921/22, 1925–1928, 1935–1937 and 1943/44. He also founded the Ukrainian Historical-Philological Society and was its vice-president from 1923 to 1932. Between 1926 and 1939 he also taught as a professor at Charles University in Prague . In 1945 he died at the age of 78 after a long illness in the Bulovka hospital in Prague.

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Oleksandr Kolessa dealt with his literary and philological work primarily with ancient Ukrainian monuments. He also wrote numerous studies on recent Ukrainian literary history, in particular on Taras Shevchenko , Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnovyanenko , Markijan Schaschkewytsch and Jurij Fedkowytsch , whose works he edited in 1902. He also dealt with the Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-Czech literary relations. His own poetry was published in Galician newspapers.

family

Oleksandr Kolessa was the father of the pianist and music teacher Lubka Kolessa , brother of Iwan and Filaret Kolessa, and the uncle of the composer, conductor and teacher Mykola Kolessa .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Oleksandr Kolessa on ukrainians-world.org.ua ; accessed on May 8, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Biography Kolessa, Oleksandr Mychajlovyč on the website of the Austrian Biographical Lexicon and biographical documentation of the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ; accessed on May 9, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c Biography of Oleksandr Kolessa on the official website of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ; accessed on May 10, 2017 (Czech)
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Kolessa, Oleksander in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 8, 2017
  5. ↑ Entry on Oleksandr Kolessa in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 8, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Kolessa, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolessa, Oleksandr Mychailowytsch (full name); Колесса, Олександр Михайлович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian literary historian, ethnographer, linguist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Chodowice , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1945
Place of death Prague , Czechoslovakia