Wassyl Biloserskyj

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Wassyl Biloserskyj

Wassyl Mychailowytsch Biloserskyj ( Ukrainian Василь Михайлович Білозерський ; * 1825 in Motronivka , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † February 20, July 4  / March 4, 1899 greg. Ibid.) Was a Ukrainian and cultural activist and civic journalist.

Life

Vasyl Biloserskyj was born in Motronivka Manor, now part of the village of Oleniwka in the Ukrainian Oblast of Chernihiv . Until 1846 he studied history and philology at St. Vladimir University in Kiev and then taught at the cadet school in Poltava . He was the author of a peasant school program and a memorandum on the statutes of the Cyril and Methodist brotherhood of which he was a member. Because of his participation in the brotherhood, he was exiled in 1847 to Petrozavodsk in the Russian governorate of Olonez , where he worked in the local governor's administration. From 1855 he lived in Saint Petersburg , where he married in the winter of 1855/56 and published the first Ukrainian monthly magazine "Osnova" (German: "Basis") in 1861/62. In March 1861 he gave one of the funeral orations at the funeral of Taras Shevchenko , who, like him, had been a member of the Cyril and Methodist brotherhood . He later moved to Warsaw , where he worked for the newspapers “Мета” (German: “Objective”) and “Правда” (German: “Truth”) and maintained contacts with Galician political activists. He spent the last years of his life on the family estate in Motronivka.

He was the brother of Hanna Barwinok and thus the brother-in-law of Pantelejmon Kulisch .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Wassyl Biloserskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 13, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ^ Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 13, 2017
  3. ↑ entry to Bilozersky, Vasyl in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 13, 2017
  4. ↑ Taras Shevchenko - A Ukrainian Poet's Life; Literary Study, p. 47; Alfred Jensen , Vienna 1916
personal data
SURNAME Biloserskyj, Wassyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biloserskyj, Wassyl Mychailowytsch (full name); Білозерський, Василь Михайлович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian civic and cultural activist, journalist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Motronivka , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1899
Place of death Motronivka , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire