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Velesniv
Velesniv ( uk, Велеснів) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Monastyryska urban hromada.
History
The first written mention is from 1454.
Religion
* Saint Nicholas church (1864; brick, restored 1992; renovated 1999, ...
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Galicia,
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Lwów
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk (May 9, 1871 – October 6, 1926),
writer
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literary
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scholar
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journalist
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, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.
Hnatiuk focused primarily on
West Ukraine
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, gathering information about folk songs, legends, customs and dialects.
He was a close companion of
Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Грушевський, Chełm, – Kislovodsk, 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figure ...
and
Ivan Franko
Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced ˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, ...
. Member of Russian Academy of Arts (1902), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1905).
In 1899 he became the secretary of
Shevchenko Scientific Society
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. Editor of the Shevchenko"s Scientific Society publication and “The Ukrainian Historical Journal”. He was the director of the Ukrainian Union of publishing.
Biography
Volodymyr Hnatiuk was born on May 9, 1871 in
Velesniv
Velesniv ( uk, Велеснів) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Monastyryska urban hromada.
History
The first written mention is from 1454.
Religion
* Saint Nicholas church (1864; brick, restored 1992; renovated 1999, ...
, Buchach powiat,
Galicia (now located in
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 ...
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Ukraine
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). He studied in the
Buchach
Buchach ( uk, Бучач; pl, Buczacz; yi, בעטשאָטש, Betshotsh or (Bitshotsh); he, בוצ'אץ' ''Buch'ach''; german: Butschatsch; tr, Bucaş) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of T ...
and Stanislavska high school and
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...
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Even in the years of training he to study seriously folklore and ethnography. His first scientific works were published in the magazine "Life and Word", "The Nation", and other, in those period.
He studied folk art in close contact with the socio-economic conditions of workers. Hnatiuk systematically made a note of folklore in
Eastern Galicia
Eastern Galicia ( uk, Східна Галичина, Skhidna Galychyna, pl, Galicja Wschodnia, german: Ostgalizien) is a geographical region in Western Ukraine (present day oblasts of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil), having also essential h ...
from 1893 to 1902. In 1859-1903 he investigated six folklore and ethnographic expeditions to Transcarpathian Ukraine. He wrote down about 1500 folk songs, composed a few selected works such as “Kolomiyka” (Ukrainian dance and song) in 3 parts, 1905-1907, "Hayivka" (1909), and "Carols and songs" (1914).
Hnatiuk died in Lviv on October 6, 1926. He was buried at the
Lychakiv Cemetery
Lychakiv Cemetery ( uk, Личаківський цвинтар, translit=Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar; pl, Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie), officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" ( uk, Державний істор ...
in Lviv.
Research activities
When he was a freshman at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv he took an interest in the folklore of residents of the southern slopes of the Carpathians.
The first study "Lyrists: lyrist, prayers, words, news and others facts about lyrists of Buchach district" was published in 1896.
Personally conducted by Ivan Franko he edited the ethnographic collection "Materials for Ukrainian Ethnology". He published a number of scientific publications about residents of Transcarpathian areas who are called lemky and also about residents of Yugoslavia who are called Ruthenians.
There were further works such as:
* «Ruski in Bachtsya» (1898),
* «Ruthenians in Hungary» (1899),
* «Ruthenians of the Pryashiv eparchy and their dialect» (1900),
* «Slovaks or Ruthenians» (1901).
He edited the works of the Ukrainian and foreign authors, translated into Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Czech, Swedish and other literatures. The collected materials are celebrated for accuracy of record and have great importance for the further study of culture and life of Ukrainian, especially of Carpathian residents.
A regular network for the collection of ethnographic and folkloristic materials was created by him.
Numerous works on comparative ethnography, linguistics, literary criticism, organizing and publishing folkloristic materials, were also created by Volodymyr Hnatiuk.
He actively corresponded with I. Franko, B.Hrinchenko, M. Voronyi, B. Lepkyi, M. Pavlik,
A. Krushelnytskyi I.Nechuy-Levitsky, and others.
In 30 years of researching and publishing, Volodymyr Hnatiuk published about a thousand different works. He was the first to push the Ukrainian folklore on the wide path of European science.
I. Franko named Volodymyr Hnatiuk a "phenomenally lucky collector of all ethnographic material in which, among our older collectors, apparently, no one did believe."
Works
Among the works of Hnatiuk are:
* "Ethnographic material from Hungarian Ruthenia"
* "Galician-Ruthenian folk legend"
* "Kolomyyky"
* "Hayivkas"
* "People's stories about
opryshky
Oleksa Dovbush ( uk, Олекса Довбуш) (born 1700, Pechenizhyn Kolomyia— died 24 August 1745) was a famous Ukrainian outlaw, leader of opryshky, who became a folk hero, often compared to Robin Hood.
Biography
Oleksa was born in the H ...
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* "Carols and songs"
* "Ukrainian folk tales"
* "National revival of Austro-Hungarian Ukrainian"
* "People's stories"
* "Folk tales"
* "How the world was BC. Folk legends from the history of nature and human life "
* "Burning and swimming of witches in Galicia "
Honouring
* The Volodymyr Hnatiuk Museum in Velesniv.
*
Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University
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TNPU provides courses in the sciences and humanities with a focus on education and teaching. It offers pos ...
in
Ternopil
Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...
is named after him.
* A gymnasium in
Buchach
Buchach ( uk, Бучач; pl, Buczacz; yi, בעטשאָטש, Betshotsh or (Bitshotsh); he, בוצ'אץ' ''Buch'ach''; german: Butschatsch; tr, Bucaş) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of T ...
was named after him.
Sources
Mykola Mushynka. Hnatiuk, Volodymyr: Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1989).
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Ukrainian ethnographers
Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
1871 births
1926 deaths
Journalists from Lviv
Ukrainian translators
People from Ternopil Oblast
People from Buchach
Writers from Lviv
Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery