Vasyl Shchurat

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Vasyl Shchurat

Vasyl Hryhorowytsch Schtschurat ( Ukrainian Василь Григорович Щурат ; born August 12, jul. / 24. August  1871 greg. In Wysloboky , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary ; † 27. April 1948 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet Literary scholar, writer and translator.

Life

Vasyl Shchurat was born in the village of Wysloboky ( Вислобоки ) in the Austrian crown land Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in what is now Kamjanka-Buska district in the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast .

He attended the academic high school in Lemberg (Lviv) from 1884 and studied Slavic philology at the University of Vienna between 1892 and 1894 and at the University of Lemberg from 1895 . He received his doctorate in Slavic language and philology at the University of Vienna in 1896 and received the academic degree of Doctor of Philology. From 1903 to 1904 he studied the scholasticism of the period of René Descartes at the university in Strasbourg . He made the acquaintance of Mychajlo Drahomanow and Ivan Franko , under whose favor he entered literary and public life and under whose influence he remained until 1896.

From 1897 he taught at the state grammar school in Stanislaw , then from 1898 to 1901 at the grammar school in Przemyśl , between 1901 and 1907 he was a grammar school teacher in Brody and from 1907 to 1918 at school no.8 in Lviv, where he also worked in the Proswita was active. In addition, he was co-editor of the newspaper "Bukowina" in Chernivtsi in 1896 and 1904–1906 , helped in Lviv in 1906/07 with the publication of the modernist magazine S'vit and worked in 1908/09 and 1911/12 as editor-in-chief at two different newspapers . From 1915 to 1923 he headed the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. Since he refused to swear allegiance to the Polish state in 1921 , he was director of the private girls' high school of the Basilian sisters in Lviv in the interwar period . In addition, between 1921 and 1923 he was the first rector of the Ukrainian secret university ( Таємний український університет ), which existed until 1925 , for which he was imprisoned by the Polish authorities for three months in 1921. In 1928 he was elected President of the Society of Writers and Journalists in Galicia. From 1939 to 1941 and again from 1944 to 1948 he was the director of the Lviv Science Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and from 1939 to 1941 he was a professor at the University of Lviv.

Shchurat's grave in Lychakiv Cemetery

He died at the age of 76 in Lviv and was buried there in the Lychakiv Cemetery .

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Wassyl Schchurat devoted his academic work to the fields of folklore, ethnography, literary and art history, literary studies and research into social development and culture in western Ukraine. He wrote a total of over 200 studies, articles and monographs, including research on Taras Shevchenko , Jurij Fedkowytsch , Markijan Schaschkewytsch , Pantelejmon Kulisch , Iwan Kotlyarewskyj , Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnovyanenko and Iwan Franko. He also worked as a translator and translated a significant number of prosaic and poetic works from the German, Polish, Italian, Romanian, Russian and Belarusian languages ​​into Ukrainian, including works by Goethe , Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki , but also the Odes by Horace , the Roland song as well as individual works by Pushkin , Nikolai Nekrassow , Maxim Gorki and Jakub Kolas .

Lyric collections:

  • 1895 Lux in tenebris
  • 1898 Moji lysty (Ukrainian: Мої листи )
  • 1904 Na trembiti (Ukrainian: На трембіті )
  • 1907 Istorychni pisni (Ukrainian: Історичні пісні )
  • 1909 Wybir piss (Ukrainian: Вибір пісень )

Honors and memberships

Web links

Commons : Wassyl Shchurat  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry on Wassyl Shchurat in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 21, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Entry on Shchurat, Vasyl in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 21, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c Will the historical injustice in Lviv be corrected? on day.kyiv.ua ; accessed on May 21, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Vasyl Shchurat on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on May 21, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b c Entry on Wassyl Shchurat in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on May 21, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Shchurat, Vasyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shchurat, Vasyl Hryhorowytsch (full name); Щурат, Василь Григорович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet literary scholar, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Wysloboky , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1948
Place of death Lviv , Ukrainian SSR