Volodymyr Samijlenko

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Volodymyr Samijlenko in the first quarter of the 20th century
Group picture at the opening of a monument to Ivan Kotlyarevsky in Poltava in 1903. From left to right: Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj , Wassyl Stefanyk , Olena Ptschilka , Lesja Ukrajinka , Mychajlo Staryzkyj , Hnat Chotkewytsch , Volodymyr Samijlenko

Volodymyr Iwanowytsch Samijlenko ( Ukrainian Володимир Іванович Самійленко ; January 22, jul. / 3. February  1864 greg. In Velyki Sorochyntsi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 12. August 1925 in Boyarka in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian poet, Playwright and translator.

Life

Volodymyr Samijlenko attended high school in Poltava . During his studies between 1884 and 1890 at the historical-philological faculty of the University of Kiev , he published his first poems and traveled to Galicia and Bukovina , where he made the acquaintance of Ivan Franko . After graduation, he worked as an employee in Kiev, Yekaterinoslav and Myrhorod . From 1905 he worked for the newspapers “Gromadska Dumka”, “Rada” and “Hornet” in Kiev and then until 1917 as a notary in Dobryanka .

After the founding of the Ukrainian People's Republic , he worked in the ministries for education and finance and emigrated to Polish-occupied Galicia after its end . In 1924 he returned to Kiev, but his health suffered so much during the civil war that he died near Kiev the following year.

In addition to poetry and plays he wrote satire and translated numerous classical pieces such as Homer's Iliad and the Divine Comedy of Dante into Ukrainian . In 1926 "Selected Works" from Samijlenko's autobiography and in 1958 his "Works in Two Volumes" were published in Kiev.

Web links

Commons : Volodymyr Samijlenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Volodymyr Samijlenko on oblosvita ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 (Ukrainian).
  2. ↑ Biography Volodymyr Samijlenko on dovidka ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 (Ukrainian).
  3. ↑ Biography Volodymyr Samijlenko on onlyart.org, accessed on July 4, 2016 (Ukrainian).
personal data
SURNAME Samijlenko, Volodymyr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Самійленко, Володимир Іванович (Ukrainian); Samijlenko, Volodymyr Ivanovych (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet, playwright and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Velyki Sorochynzi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1925
Place of death Boyarka near Kiev , Ukrainian SSR