Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk

Olha Kossatsch, 1896

Olha Petriwna Kossatsch-Krywynjuk ( Ukrainian Ольга Петрівна Косач-Кривинюк , pseudonym: Олеся Зірка Olesya Sirka ; born May 14, ^Jul. / 26 May  1877 ^{. Greg} in Novohrad-Volynskyi , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire ; † 11. November 1945 in Augsburg , American Occupation Zone , Germany ) was a Ukrainian writer , literary critic , translator , bibliographer , ethnographer , teacher and doctor.

family

Olha's father, the State Councilor Petro Kossatsch ( Петро Антонович Косач 1842–1909) was a lawyer, educator and philanthropist. Her mother, the writer Olena Ptschilka , was the daughter of the Ukrainian poet and translator Petro Drahomanow and sister of Mychajlo Drahomanow , the well-known Ukrainian historian and political thinker.

Her siblings were the physicist, meteorologist, writer and translator Mychajlo Kossatsch ( Михайло Петрович Косач ; 1869 to 1903), the famous Ukrainian poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913), the musician and translator Oksana Kossatsch-Schymanowska ( Оксана Петрівна Косач-Шимановська ; 1882–1975), the public figure Mykola Kossatsch ( Микола Петрович Косач ; 1884–1937) and the translator and cultural activist Isydora Kosach- Boryssowa ( Ізидора Петрівна Касач -1980– .1888–1980 )

She was the wife of the philologist , translator and lexicographer Mychajlo Krywynjuk ( Михайло Васильович Кривинюк ; 1871-1944).

Life

Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk was born as the younger sister of the well-known poet and dramaturge Lesja Ukrajinka in what is now the Ukrainian city of Novohrad-Wolynskyj and, like her older sister, was brought up in the Ukrainian national spirit under the influence of her mother. When Olha was one and a half years old, her family moved with her first to Lutsk in Volhynia and then to the village of Kolodjashne , where she experienced her conscious childhood and youth. First, Olha learned at home in Kolodjaschne, where she was taught by her mother in German and French and by her brother Mychajlo in physics, chemistry and mathematics. Olha's older sister Lesja also paid her a lot of attention and wrote a textbook on the history of the oriental peoples , which Olha published in Yekaterinoslav in 1919 .

Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk in the 1910s

In the autumn of 1893, Olha and Lesja moved to Kiev to attend school there. She entered the seventh grade of the private O. Dutschynskoji girls' high school in Kiev , where she graduated from high school with a gold medal in 1897. She then studied medicine at the only institution in the Russian Empire where a woman could receive a higher medical education, the higher medical courses for women in Saint Petersburg . After completing her medical degree, in late 1904 she married Mychajlo Krywynjuk, who was studying at the Prague Polytechnic Institute , which is why she moved to him in Prague . After the birth of her first child, she moved to Kiev in 1906, while her husband stayed in Prague. So she lived again in Kiev until 1908 and took an active part in public life there, especially in the cultural association Proswita . From Kiev, she often visited the Selenyj Haj estate ( Зелений Гай , in German: Green Grove ) near Hadjatsch .

Between 1910 and 1922 she worked as a doctor in Lozmanska Kamjanka near Yekaterinoslav . There she treated mentally ill children and ran an ambulance . She also founded an orphanage, an embroidery club, a workshop for weavers and, together with her husband, a children's art school in 1917. In 1920 she gave birth to her youngest son in Lozmanska Kamjanka. During the Russian Civil War , the family moved to Mohyliw-Podilskyj in 1921 , where they worked as a teacher. In 1924 she returned to Kiev and worked initially as a Ukrainian teacher at secondary school No. 20 and from 1929 as a bibliographer at the Kiev Scientific Medical Library .

Before the end of the German-Soviet War , she moved to Prague and from there in 1944 via Lviv , where she gave the Kosach family archive, which she had collected for many years, to a friend (now in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ) from further to a camp for displaced persons in Augsburg, where she died of tuberculosis in November 1945 at the age of 68.

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Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk collected Ukrainian folk embroidery and published a collection entitled “Ukrainian Folk Patterns from Kiev, Poltava and Yekaterinoslav”. The samples you have collected are a valuable source for the study of Ukrainian folk embroidery, especially the Yekaterinoslav region .

Using the pseudonym Зорі (Sori) , she translated works of world literature, including stories by Guy de Maupassant , Alphonse Daudet , George Sand and Victor Hugo from French, English-language works by Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling and works by , sometimes with her husband Eliza Orzeszkowa from Polish and Czech works by Edvard Beneš and Karel Jaromír Erben into Ukrainian. She also translated works by Hans Christian Andersen and Iwan Turgenew into the Ukrainian language.

She was also the editor of children's literature and in the last years of her life wrote valuable memoirs about Lesja Ukrajinka's childhood. Her long-term work on studying the biography of Lesja Ukrajinka, organizing her correspondence and the resulting work Chronology of Lesja Ukrajinka's life and work is particularly valuable .

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  Petro Kossatsch, 1868

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  Olena Ptschilka, 1891

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  Mychajlo Kryvynjuk, early 20th century.

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  Oksana Steschenko , Lesja Ukrajinka and Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk; 1896

Web links

Commons : Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Olha Petriwna Kosach-Kryvynjuk, sister of Lesja Ukrajinka on l-ukrainka ; accessed on August 6, 2020 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk collects folk patterns in the Ekaterinoslav region , on the website of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum ; accessed on August 6, 2020 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Entry on Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on August 6, 2020 (Ukrainian)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry on Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on August 6, 2020 (Ukrainian)
5. ↑ Olha Kosach-Kryvynjuk (1877) on calendarium.com.ua ; accessed on August 6, 2020 (Ukrainian)
6. ↑ The Kosach family in Dnipropetrovsk on kolokray.com ; accessed on August 6, 2020 (Russian)