Volodymyr Shashkevich

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Volodymyr Shashkevich

Volodymyr Markijanowytsch Schaschkewytsch ( Ukrainian Володимир Маркіянович Шашкевич * 7. April 1839 in Nestanytschi , Kronland Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria ; † 16th February 1885 in Lvov , Galicia) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, kulturpädagogischer-, sozialer- and political activist .

Life

Volodymyr Schaschkewytsch was born as the son of the Ukrainian writer, poet and priest Markijan Schaschkewytsch and Julia-Kateryna Kruschynska in the village of Nestanytschi ( Нестаничі ) in what is now Radechiv Raion of the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast , where his father was a Greek-Catholic priest of the Ukrainian-Ukrainian at the time Church was active. After his father died in 1843, his mother moved up there alone and learned to write in Polish and Russian. From 1851 to 1859 he attended school in Lviv, and from 1861 he studied at the Law Faculty of the Lviv Franz I University and also at the University of Vienna . As a high school student, influenced by local folklore, he wrote poems that were first published in 1860 in the literary almanac Sorja Halyzka ( Зоря Галицька , in German dawn ). According to the historian Ostap Sereda ( Остап Володимирович Середа ; * 1970), his social views and literary tastes were under the influence of Taras Shevchenko , Pantelejmon Kulisch and Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnovyanenko .

Between 1862 and 1863 he published the magazine Wetschernyzi ( Вечерниці out) and 1866 he published the Ukrainian literary weekly magazine Russalka ( Русалка ). In 1868 he became a member of the Proswita , for which he wrote public readings. From June 1869 he worked as an employee at the regional court in Lemberg, in September 1872 he became a tax officer in Ternopil and in February 1874 in Kolomyja . He was later transferred to Tarnów in Western Galicia . After he retired, he moved back to Lviv in 1883, where he died at the age of 45.

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Volodymyr Schaschkewytsch was the author of lyric poems, poems and the drama Syla ljubowi ( Сила любові to German The power of love ) from 1864. His collection of poems Silnyk ( Зільник ) of 1863 contains lyric poems, the poem Cherna ( Черна ) the ballad Russalka as well as translations of some works by Heinrich Heine and other authors.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schaschkewitsch, Wladimir Markianowitsch on cultin.ru ; accessed on May 30, 2019 (Russian)
  2. ↑ a b c d Article on Volodymyr Schaschkewytsch on zbruc.eu ; accessed on May 30, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Shashkevych, Volodymyr in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 30, 2019
  4. ↑ Entry on Volodymyr Schaschkewytsch in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on May 30, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Shashkevych, Volodymyr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaschkewytsch, Volodymyr Markijanowytsch (full name); Шашкевич, Володимир Маркіянович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, poet, cultural pedagogical, social and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Nestanytschi , Crown Land , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1885
Place of death Lviv , Galicia