Yuriy Fedkovych
Osyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych (Ukrainian: О́сип-Ю́рій Адальбертович Федько́вич, 8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator.[1]
Biography
[edit]Fedkovych lived in Chernivtsi, where he was a closed 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.[2]
He edited the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina.
In 1989 Chernivtsi University was renamed Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in his memory.
Works
[edit]- ' The soldier's daughter'. Translated by Roma Franko. In Sonia Morris, ed., From days gone by: selected prose fiction, Toronto: Language Lanterns Publications, 2008.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 'Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych', Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States 20: 47-8 (1999), pp.105ff.
- ^ Tsurkan, Kate (26 December 2022). "What Is the Secret of Chernivtsi?: A Conversation with Igor Pomerantsev". Los Angeles Review of Books.
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