Pavlo Chubynskyi

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Pavlo Chubynskyi

Pavlo Platonowytsch Tschubynskyj ( Ukrainian Павло Платонович Чубинський , Russian Павел Платонович Чубинский / Pawel Platonovich Tschubinski * March 15 jul. / 27. March  1839 greg. In Boryspil , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , † January 17 jul. / January 29  1884 greg. In Kiev ) was a Ukrainian ethnographer , folklorist , historian , geographer and journalist .

He is known as the author of the poem Shche ne wmerla Ukrajina (in German Ukraine has not died yet ), composed in autumn 1862 , which, set to music by Mychajlo Werbyzkyj , became the basis of today's national anthem of Ukraine .

Life

Tschubynskyj was born on a farm in the village of Tschubynske near Boryspil, named after him in 1993, as the son of an impoverished nobleman. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Saint Petersburg University . In 1862 he wrote the poem Shche ne wmerla Ukrajina, whereupon he was exiled to Arkhangelsk by the police chief Prince Vasily Andreevich Dolgorukov for "harmful influence on the heads of the commoners" in the same year , where he spent the next seven years.

In 1869 he returned to Saint Petersburg and became head of an ethnographic statistical expedition. During this period he studied in the years 1869 and 1870 daily life, folk customs, dialects, folklore and popular beliefs in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Between 1873 and 1876 he headed the southwest branch of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society . His work made an important contribution to the preservation of documents of Ukrainian culture and originality. For his research he received a gold medal from the Russian Geographical Society in 1873, a gold medal from the International Ethnographic Congress in Paris in 1875, and in 1879 he received the Uvarov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences, the highest scientific award in Russia. He also gained fame through his poetry. He died in Kiev in 1884 after a long and serious illness and was buried in his birthplace.

family

His son Mychajlo Chubynskyj was Minister of Justice of the Ukrainian State from May 8, 1918 to August 24, 1918 .

Web links

Commons : Pavlo Chubynsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From San to Don . This song unites Ukraine ; accessed on April 27, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c biography Pavlo Platonowytsch Tschubynskyj in the library of Ukrainian literature ; accessed on April 28, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Chubynsky, Pavlo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 28, 2016 (English)
  4. ^ Government portal : personalities in science and technology ; accessed on April 28, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Entry on Mychajlo Tschubynskyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on February 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Chubynskyi, Pavlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chubynskyj, Pavlo Platonowytsch (full name); Чубинський, Павло Платонович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, historian, geographer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Boryspil , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1884
Place of death Kiev