Pylyp Semenovych Morachevskyi (; 1806–1879) was a Ukrainian romantic poet, and translator of the

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

into Ukrainian. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Khvylymon Haluzenko (Хвилимон Галузенко).''Ukraine: a concise encyclopaedia'' Volodymyr Kubiĭovych, Naukove tovarystvo im. Shevchenka - 1963 "manuscript poems of the translator of the Gospels, Philip Morachevsky."

Biography

He was born in the village of Shestovytsya in

Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast (), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv. There are 1,511 sett ...

to a poor noble family, and studied at the local school in

Chernihiv Chernihiv (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is The city was designated as a Hero City of Ukraine ...

, then later at the University of Kharkiv. He began to work on Ukrainian language texts in the 1850s: In 1859 he retired with his wife, three sons and two daughters to the village of Shnakivtsi in Nizhynsky County. In the 1860s he began his Bible translations into Ukrainian starting with the Gospels, completed in November 1861, then

Acts of the Apostles The Acts of the Apostles (, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; ) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of The gospel, its message to the Roman Empire. Acts and the Gospel of Luke make u ...

Revelation and

Psalms The Book of Psalms ( , ; ; ; ; , in Islam also called Zabur, ), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ('Writings'), and a book of the Old Testament. The book is an anthology of B ...

. He also wrote a Ukrainian "Sacred History" for elementary schools. However the Russian authorities did not permit the publication of his Ukrainian New Testament portions until 27 years after his death in 1906 in

Nizhyn Nizhyn (, ; ) is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine along the Oster River. The city is located north-east of the national capital Kyiv. Nizhyn serves as the capital city, administrative center of Nizhyn Raion. It hosts the ...

Works

His most famous poems include: * ''

Chumak Chumak () was a historical and traditional wagon-based trade , trading occupation in Ukraine in the Late Middle Ages, late Medieval and Early modern period , early Modern periods of history.Proskurova, S. Chumak-occupation (ЧУМАЦТВО)'. E ...

s, or Ukraine in 1768'' «Чумаки, або Україна з 1768 року» * ''To a Chumak'' «До чумака, або Війна янгло-хранцузо-турецька»

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morachevskyi, Pylyp 1806 births 1879 deaths Ukrainian male poets Translators of the Bible into Ukrainian National University of Kharkiv alumni 19th-century translators 19th-century poets