Yakub, Yakiv Holovatsky ( uk, Яків Головацький; 17 October 1814 in

Chepeli Chepeli ( ua, Чепелі) is a village (''selo'') in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. It belongs to Pidkamin settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. From 1918 to 1939 the village was in Tarnopol Voivodeship in Pol ...

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— 13 May 1888 in

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) was a noted Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of

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. He was a member of the

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, one of the most influential Ukrainian literary groups in the Austrian Empire.Яків Федорович ГОЛОВАЦЬКИЙ
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Biography

Yakov was born in a family of a priest Fedir Holovatsky (Hlavatsky) whose heritage takes roots in the city of Mykolaiv (today in

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

). Ivan Holovatsky, grandfather of Yakiv, was szlachtycz of Polish Prus

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family and the burg-minister of Mykolaiv. Yakiv's mother Fekla Yakymovych also was from the family of a priest in Tur, Zloczow powiat. His education he received in Lviv where later he enrolled into the Theological Seminary of the

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. As a student he traversed Galicia,

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, and

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collecting folk songs. In 1832, at Lviv University he,

Markiyan Shashkevych Markiyan Shashkevych (November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – June 7, 1843 in Novosilky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of th ...

, and

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formed the

, which published the first Halycz almanac in the vernacular, Rusalka Dnistrovaya (The Dniester Nymph, 1836), and played an important role in the Galician cultural revival. In 1842 he became a

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priest and later received an appointment to the village of Mykytyntsi near

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. From 1848 to 1867 he was the first professor of

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at Lviv University. During that time in 1864-1866 was the rector (rector magnificus) of the university. Influenced by Mikhail Pogodin's

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ideas, he became a

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in the 1850s. Dismissed from the university for his views, in 1867 he moved to Russian-ruled

to head the archeological commission there.

References

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