Wassyl Horlenko

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Wassyl Horlenko

Vasyl Petrowytsch Horlenko ( Ukrainian Василь Петрович Горленко , Russian Василий Петрович Горленко Vasily Petrovich Gorlenko ; born March 1, jul. / 13. March  1853 greg. In Jaroschiwka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † April 14 jul. / 27. April  1907 greg. in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian writer , literary critic , art historian , folklorist and ethnographer .

Life

Wassyl Horlenko came from an old Ukrainian Cossack family , known since the 16th century, and was born in Yaroshiwka, today's Ukrajinske ( Українське ) in the Ukrainian Chernihiv Oblast (another spring in the same-named place in Sumy Oblast ).

He first studied at the Nischyn Lyceum and then at the Sorbonne in Paris until 1882 . He then wrote numerous articles for the monthly magazine for Ukrainian studies Kievskaia Starina , which is published in Kiev , including articles on Ukrainian literature and Dumas (Ukrainian lyrical-epic folk songs of the Cossack period of the 16th and 17th centuries). He also wrote literary portraits of writers such as Taras Shevchenko , Ivan Franko , Ivan Kotljarewskyj , Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnovyanenko and Ivan Nechuj-Levyzkyj as well as studies of classical artists such as Dmitri Levizki and Vladimir Borowikowski .

Horlenko maintained close relationships with artists such as Marija Sankowezka , Nikolai Kostomarow and Panas Myrnyj . He died at the age of 54 in Saint Petersburg and was buried in his home village.

Some of his works were published between 1898 and 1905. In 1934 a monograph on him by Dmytro Doroshenko was published in Paris.

Web links

Commons : Wassyl Horlenko  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first Ukrainian cultural scientist - Wassyl Horlenko article in day.kyiv of January 14, 2003; accessed on February 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Wassyl Horlenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on February 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Wassyl Horlenko in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on February 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c Entry on Wassyl Horlenko in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 25, 2018 (English)
  5. ↑ Entry on Wassyl Horlenko in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on February 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Horlenko, Wassyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horlenko, Vasyl Petrowytsch (full name); Горленко, Василь Петрович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, literary critic, art historian, folklorist and ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaroshiwka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1907
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire