Yuriy Fedkovych
Osyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych (8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator. • Illustration — Yuriy Fedkovych • Illustration — Ukrainian coin featuring Yuriy Fedkovych
Also recorded as Yurii Fedkovych · Osyp Yurii Fedkovych · Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych · Joseph Horodencuk Fedkovych
Yuriy Fedkovych
Gebrüder König, Czernowitz · Peter Rychlo, Oleg Liubkivskyj: Literaturstadt Czernowitz, 2., verbesserte Auflage. Czernowitz 2009, S. 37 · Public domain
- Born
- 1834. · Putyla.
- Died
- 1888. · Chernivtsi.
- Nationality
- Austrian Empire and Austria–Hungary.
- Occupation
- linguist, poet, translator, writer and soldier.
- Fields
- poetry and drama fiction.
- Movements
- Romanticism.
- Languages
- Ukrainian and German.
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Fedkovych lived in Chernivtsi, where he was a close associate of Rudolf Neubauer, the editor of Bukowina, the first German literary supplement in the city, and also the creator of the German language literary circle in Chernivtsi. He edited the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina. In 1989 Chernivtsi University was renamed Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in his memory.
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Yuriy Fedkovych (8 August 1834 – 11 January 1888) is described as a writer in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Yuriy Fedkovych is recorded on 8 August 1834, and the death on 11 January 1888 in Tscherniwzi.
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• ' The soldier's daughter'. Translated by Roma Franko. In Sonia Morris, ed., From days gone by: selected prose fiction, Toronto: Language Lanterns Publications, 2008.
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He also worked under the names Jurij Kossovan and Huculnevir. His recorded languages were Ukrainian and German.
Yuriy Fedkovych (1834-1888)
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1834
Yuriy Fedkovych born at Putyla.
1888
Yuriy Fedkovych died at Chernivtsi.
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Putyla.
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- 1.'Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych', Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States 20: 47-8 (1999), pp.105ff.
- 2.Tsurkan, Kate. What Is the Secret of Chernivtsi?: A Conversation with Igor Pomerantsev. Los Angeles Review of Books. 26 December 2022.
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Yuriy Fedkovych is recorded as linguist, poet, translator, writer and soldier.
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