Pavlo Dumka ( uk, Павло Андрійович Думка; 21 March 1854 – 19 November 1918) was a Ukrainian poet, publicist, public figure. Founding member of the

Ukrainian Radical Party The Ukrainian Radical Party, (URP), ( uk, Українська радикальна партія, УPП, ''Ukrajinśka Radykaľna Partija'') founded in October 1890 as Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party and based on the radical movement in wester ...

(1890), ambassador to the

Galician Sejm *german: Landtag von Galizien , native_name_lang = , transcription_name = , legislature = , coa_pic = Wappen Königreich Galizien & Lodomerien.png , coa_caption = Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodome ...

(1908–1918), member of the Ukrainian National Council of the ZUNR (1918).Думка Павло Андрійович
/ Б. М. Савак // Енциклопедія Сучасної України �лектронний ресурс/ Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк �а ін. НАН України, НТШ, К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2008.

Biography

Pavlo Dumka was born on 21 March 1854, in Kupchyntsi, now in the Ternopil Raion of the

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast ( uk, Тернопі́льська о́бласть, translit=Ternopilska oblast; also referred to as Ternopilshchyna, uk, Терно́пільщина, label=none, or Ternopillia, uk, Тернопілля, label=none) is an obl ...

. Studied at a carving school in Lviv. In 1874, he organized the Prosvita reading room in his native village. Died on 19 November 1918 in

Drahomanivka Drahomanivka ( uk, драгоманівка, ) was a proposed reform of the Ukrainian alphabet and orthography, promoted by Mykhailo Drahomanov. This orthography was used in a few publications and in Drahomanov's correspondence, but due to cult ...

, now Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast.

Works

In 1885 he made his debut as a poet. Dumka also contributed to the press on social and national-patriotic topics. Friended with Ivan Franko,

Mykhailo Pavlyk Mykhailo or Mykhaylo ( uk, Михайло) is a Ukrainian given name, equivalent to English Michael (given name), Michael. Notable people with the name include: *Mykhaylo Berkos (1861–1919), Russian and Ukraine artist of Greek origin *Mykhailo Bo ...

Vasyl Stefanyk Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стефа́ник; May 14, 1871 – December 7, 1936) was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1 ...

, and Les Martovych. Posthumously, Dumka's collections of poetry "Vesnianka" (1970) and journalism and poetry "Molytva rilnyka" (1994) were published.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dumka, Pavlo 1854 births 1918 deaths Ukrainian activists Ukrainian male poets Politicians from Ternopil Oblast West Ukrainian People's Republic people Prosvita People from Kupchyntsi, Ternopil Oblast