Pavlo Sayzev

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Павло Іванович Зайцев
Transl. : Pavlo Ivanovyč Zajcev
Transcr. : Pavlo Ivanovych Sajzew
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Павел Иванович Зайцев
Transl .: Pavel Ivanovič Zajcev
Transcr .: Pavel Ivanovich Saizew

Pavlo Iwanowytsch Zaitsev ( Ukrainian Павло Іванович Зайцев ; born September 11 . Jul / 23. September  1886 greg. In Sumy , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 2. September 1965 in Munich , Germany ) was a Ukrainian philologist , literary critic , Shevchenko - Biographer and member of the Ukrainian Central Rada .

Life

Pavlo Sajzew was born in the city of Sumy in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Sumy . After graduating from the Alexander Gymnasium in Sumy in 1904, he studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Saint Petersburg , which he graduated in 1913. He witnessed the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg in 1905 and became a member of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Party in the same year . In Petersburg he was part of the Ukrainian community there, which included Dmytro Doroshenko , Serhij Jefremow , Dmytro Donzow , Oleksandr Lotozkyj , the couple Oleksandr and Sofija Rusowa , Petro Stebnyzkyj and Oleksandr Hruschewskyj .

After completing his studies, he taught Russian, Latin, Greek, Polish and Ukrainian at high schools in St. Petersburg and led a study seminar on Taras Shevchenko in the Ukrainian community . At the same time he began to study the life and work of Shevchenko, to collect and publish material for his biography. Between 1912 and 1914 he published numerous, then unknown, works and letters as well as documents and materials on Shevchenko's biography.

After the October Revolution of 1917 he became a member of the Society of Ukrainian Progressives ( Товариство українських поступовців (ТУП) Towarystwo ukrajinskych postupovziw (TUP) ) and was elected to the Executive Committee of the Petrograd National Council. In April 1917 he was appointed district commissioner in the Subcarpathian region by the Provisional Government . and the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd elected him a member of the Central Na Rada. In the same year he joined the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Federalists ( Украї́нська па́ртія соціалі́стів-федералі́стів (УПСФ) Ukrajinska partija socialistiw-federalistalkiw (UPSF) ) and became a member of its central committee. When he arrived in Kiev, he taught pedagogy at the Pedagogical Academy of Science, was a member of the Central Na Rada and was appointed Chief of Staff of the General Secretariat for Education under Vyacheslav Prokopovych . In autumn 1919 he left, together with the institutions of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UVR), Kiev, which in the course of the Russian Civil War was occupied in a short time by Denikin's troops and the Bolsheviks . In 1920 he was director of the Department of General Affairs of the Ministry of Education in the Ukrainian State (Hetmanat) and editor of the publishing house " Друкар Drukar " and the magazine " Наше минуле Nasche mynule ", in which he published many articles on the history of Ukrainian literature.

After the communist seizure of power in Ukraine, he left Kiev and became head of the cultural and educational department of the army of the UVR. In 1921 he became a member of the Council of the UVR in Tarnów, Poland, and in the same year he moved to Warsaw , where he became secretary of the diplomatic mission of the UVR. There he also worked as an employee of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute and taught Ukrainian language and language history at the university between 1921 and 1929 . In 1938 he was elected chairman of the Shevchenko Study Commission in the Philology Department of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and was elected a real member of the Society. In Warsaw he also published numerous books on Shevchenko's biography. He emigrated to Berlin in 1941 and worked for the Ukrainian Bulletin , the body of the Ukrainian National Association. In 1963 he became a member of the Ukrainian National Council and dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich . He died at the age of 78 in Munich and was buried there on September 6th in the forest cemetery.

Main work

  • The life of Taras Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Життя Тараса Шевченка Shyttja Tarassa Shevchenko ) Kiev: Oberi, 2004 - 480 pages Paris, New York, Munich, 1955, in English version under the editing of Y. Lutsky - Taras Shevchenko: A Life , Toronto , 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Entry on Pavlo Sajzew in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on May 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Article on Pavlo Sajzew in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on May 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Pawlo Sajzew in the historical portal Sumy accessed on May 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Pavlo Sajzew in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Researcher of the Truth of Shevchenko in the State Archives of Sumy Oblast on the 120th birthday of Pavlo Sajzew, March 6, 2008; accessed on May 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ The Life of Taras Shevchenko on the website of the Verkhovna Rada Library ; accessed on May 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Sayzew, Pavlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sajzew, Pavlo Ivanovych (full name); Зайцев, Павло Іванович (Ukrainian); Зайцев, Павел Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian philologist, literary critic, Shevchenko biographer and member of the Ukrainian Central Na Rada
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Sumy , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1965
Place of death Munich , Germany