Illia (Ilko) Stepanovych Kuziv ( uk, Ілля Степанович Кузів; 25 July 1874, Denysiv, now Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast – 14 November 1916,

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, Pennsylvania, US) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, writer, translator, publicist, and folklorist. He was the brother of Mykhailo Kuziv.Кузів Ілля Степанович
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Biography

Graduated from the gymnasium in Ternopil, where he began recording folk songs, which he sent to Ivan Franko. Studied theology at Lviv University. In 1900 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Taught at the Lviv Theological Seminary; was the secretary of the society "Bourgeois Reading Room of Prosvita", a teacher, rector, and secretary (of the board in Berezhany) of the Ruska Bursa. At the same time, he became friends with Tymotei Borduliak and Osyp Makovei; he continued his folklore and ethnographic activities under the influence of Ivan Franko. Since 1901, he has been in the United States; he served in the parishes of Wilkes-Barre (1909–1911) and Olyphant (1911–1915) in Pennsylvania. Dmytro Blazejowskyj. Ukrainian Catholic Clergy in Diaspora (1751–1988). Annotated List of Priests Who Served Outside of Ukraine, Universitatis catholicae Ucrainorum S. Clementis papae, Т. 69, Rome, 1988, P. 126.

Works

In 1900, he published the work "Korotkyi pohliad na istoriiu chytalni Ruskoi dukhovnoi seminarii u Lvovi". Translated short stories by Slovenian writers F. Meško, J. Krek, and J. Stritar (all in 1900), and the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by

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, with whom he was on friendly terms. At the suggestion of Fr. Kuziv, the Slovenian cultural activist J. Šlebinger translated Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar. The recordings of folk songs of various genres made by Fr. Kuziv are kept in the collections of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature and the

Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology The Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology (IAFE; Ukrainian: Інститут мистецтвознавства, фольклористики та етнології ім. М. Т. Рильського, ''Instytut mystetsvoznavst ...

(Kyiv).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuziv, Illia 1874 births 1916 deaths Ukrainian Eastern Catholic priests Ukrainian male writers Ukrainian translators Ukrainian folklorists University of Lviv alumni People from Ternopil Ivan Franko Andrey Sheptytsky