Volodymyr Naumenko

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Volodymyr Naumenko around 1900
Signature of W. Naumenko

Volodymyr Pawlowytsch Naumenko ( Ukrainian Володимир Павлович Науменко , Russian Владимир Павлович Науменко Vladimir Pavlovich Naumenko * July 7 . Jul / 19th July  1852 greg. In Novhorod-Siverskyi , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , † 8. July 1919 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian educator , lexicographer , linguist , musicologist , journalist, philologist and Minister of Education of the Ukrainian State .

Life

Volodymyr Naumenko was born into an old Cossack family from the Poltava province in the city of Novhorod-Siverskyj in what is now the Chernihiv Oblast of Ukraine , where his father was the director of the grammar school. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Vladimir University in Kiev in 1873 . After his studies, he taught at several high schools in Kiev until 1903 and between 1905 and 1914 he was the director of a high school he founded in Kiev. From 1893 to 1906 he was the editor of the journal Kievan Antiquity .

Naumenko was involved in the Ukrainian national movement and since the early 1870s a member of the Hromada ( Стара громада ), where he became treasurer in 1875 and kept in contact with Mychajlo Drahomanow, who lived in Geneva .

From 1914 to 1917 he was president of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Scientific Society ( Українське наукове товариство ) and, after the February Revolution of 1917 , until the arrival of Mychajlo Hruschewskyj , headed the newly created Central Rada in Kiev. In December 1917, after leaving the Cadet Party, he was one of the founders of the conservative Ukrainian Federal Democratic Party and in November / December 1918 he was the last Minister of Education of the Ukrainian State under Pavlo Skoropadskyi . After his dismissal he collected material on the history of Ukrainian literature of the 19th century as an employee of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences , which was founded in November 1918 .

On July 7, 1919, Naumenko was arrested by the Cheka in his Kiev apartment at midnight , sentenced to death by shooting on the afternoon of July 8, 1919, and executed by the Bolsheviks on the same day . He was probably buried in a mass grave in the Lukjanivska cemetery . On December 13, 1991, Naumenko was rehabilitated.

family

Volodymyr Naumenko married 18-year-old Wera Nykolaewna Schulhyna, an aunt of Oleksandr Schulhyn , with whom he lived for 45 years and had two sons, on October 18, 1874 .

Work (selection)

Naumenko wrote over 90 articles on Ukrainian history, ethnography, literature, education, and authors. Naumenko also discovered a folk song collection compiled by Sorian Dolenga-Chodakowski ( Зориан Доленга-Ходаковский ).

  • Происхождение думы о Самойле Кишке, Kiev Antiquity , 1883
  • Хронографы южно-русских редакций, 1885
  • Науменко И. Костомаров, как этнограф, Kiev Antiquity , 1885
  • Новелла Боккаччо в южно-русском пересказе, 1885
  • К литературной истории вирш, 1888
  • Обзор фонетических особенностей малорусской речи, Kiev 1889
  • two articles on Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnovyanenko , Kiev Antiquity , 1893
  • Слово о Полку Игореве, как памятник дружинной поэзии, 1895

Honors

Naumenko received numerous medals and honors. Including:

Web links

Commons : Wolodymyr Naumenko  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on Volodymyr Naumenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 3, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. a b c Entry on Wladimir Pawlowitsch Naumenko in Brockhaus-Efron ; accessed on April 3, 2019 (Russian)
  3. a b c d e Entry on Naumenko, Volodymyr in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 3, 2019
  4. a b c Volodymyr Naumenko History of Ukraine; accessed on April 3, 2019 (Ukrainian)