Lukjan Kobylyzja (also Lucian Kobylicza;

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: Лук'ян Кобилиця;

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: Luchian Cobiliță) (1812 – 1851) was a

Bukovinian activist, political leader and farmer. He was the leader of the popular uprisings in Bukovina from 1843 to 1844 and from 1848 to 1849, and a member of the Austrian Reichstag.

Biography

Lukjan Kobylyzja was born in 1812 to serf parents in

Putyla Putyla ( uk, Путила; ro, Putila) (formerly ''Storonets-Putyliv'', uk, Сторонець-Путилів) is an urban-type settlement in Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Puty ...

, in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi ( uk, Чернівці́}, ; ro, Cernăuți, ; see also other names) is a city in the historical region of Bukovina, which is now divided along the borders of Romania and Ukraine, including this city, which is situated on the upp ...

. In 1839 he was elected by the farmers as their public representative in order to represent their interests. In reaction to the ban on the use of forests by farmers, in late 1843 the farmers of 22 villages in Bukovina refused to carry out the duties imposed on them, demanding the establishment of Ukrainian schools, free access to forests and pastures and improving their status. In March 1844 the uprising was broken up with the help of government troops and Kobylyzja was arrested and imprisoned. Лук`ян Кобилиця

During the March Revolution, the Bukovinian peasants elected him a member of the newly established Austrian Reichstag in Vienna, where he stood up for their interests. In November 1848, in response to the limited peasant reform of 1848 in Galicia, Bukovina and Transcarpathia, he led an uprising in the mountain villages of the Vyshnytsia and

Storozhynets Storozhynets ( uk, Сторожинець, ; ro, Storojineț; see below for other names) is a small city located in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, north of the border with Romania. It hosts the administration of Sto ...

districts. During this uprising, which only ended in the summer of 1849 when troops were deployed against the rebels, forests and meadows, the ownership of which was disputed by the farmers, were confiscated by the rebels who claimed they were their propriety. Kobylyzja was arrested in Shabje in April 1850 and died of torture-related illness in 1851 in the prison of Gura Humora in the north-east of what is now Romania.Eintrag zu Lukjan Kobylyzja
in der Enzyklopädie der Geschichte der Ukraine; retrieved 29 May 2020

Honors

Kobylyzja is a popular hero in

Bukovina Bukovinagerman: Bukowina or ; hu, Bukovina; pl, Bukowina; ro, Bucovina; uk, Буковина, ; see also other languages. is a historical region, variously described as part of either Central or Eastern Europe (or both).Klaus Peter BergerT ...

.Volksheld der Bukowina
auf ''zbruc.eu''; retrieved 29 May 2020 The Ukrainian poet

Yuriy Fedkovych Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych ( uk, О́сип Ю́рій Федько́вич , translit=Osyp Jurij Feďkovyč, 8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator. Biography Fedkovych lived in Ch ...

wrote a poem entitled ''Lukjan Kobylyzja'', in which he tells his life in the form of a

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

. Hryhorij Misjun (Григорій Михайлович Мізюн; 1903–1963) wrote a drama, ''Lukjan Kobylyzja'', about him in 1952.Eintrag zu Hryhorij Misjun
in der Enzyklopädie der modernen Ukraine; retrieved 29 May 2020

References

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