Yakiv Holovatsky

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Yakiv Holovatsky
Theological Seminary (Lviv)
Alma materUniversity of Lviv (1841)
Literary movementRuthenian Triad, later Pan-Slavism
Notable worksThe Dniester Nymph, 1836

Yakiv Holovatsky (Ukrainian: Яків Головацький; 17 October 1814 in Chepeli, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire — 13 May 1888 in Vilno, Russian Empire) was a noted Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of Galician Russophiles. He was a member of the Ruthenian Triad, one of the most influential Ukrainian literary groups in the Austrian Empire.[1][2][3][4][5]

Biography

Holovatsky was born in Chepeli, to a family of a priest Fedir Holovatsky (Hlavatsky) whose heritage takes roots in the city of Mykolaiv (today in Lviv Oblast). Ivan Holovatsky, grandfather of Yakiv, was a szlachtycz of the Polish Prus coat of arms family and burg-minister of Mykolaiv. Yakiv's mother Fekla Yakymovych also was from the family of a priest in Tur, Zloczow powiat.

He received his education in Lviv, where he later enrolled in the

Theological Seminary at the University of Lviv. As a student he traversed Galicia, Bukovina, and Transcarpathia
collecting folk songs.

In 1832, at

Markiyan Shashkevych, and Ivan Vahylevych, and played an important role in the Ukrainian national revival in Galicia. The three published the first Halych almanac in the vernacular language, Rusalka Dnistrovaia (The Dniester Nymph, 1836), with included several of Holovatsky's poems. In 1946–47 he published Vinok rusynam na obzhynky (A Garland for Ruthenians at the Harvest Feast), an anthology of 20 Serbian songs in Ukrainian translation.[6]

In 1842 he became a

Lviv University, where he lectured from 1848 to 1867.[6] Holovatsky served as rector (rector magnificus) of the university from 1864 to 1866.[6][7]

When Austria began to support Galician Poles in political reaction, disillusioned and influenced by Mikhail Pogodin's Pan-Slavist ideas, Holovatsky adopted a Russophile attitude in the 1850s. Dismissed from the university for his views, in 1867 he moved to Russian-ruled Vilno (Vilnius) to head the archaeographic commission there. The most important work among his ethnographic and literary studies was Narodnye pesni Galitskoi i Ugorskoi Rusi (Folk Songs of Galician and Hungarian Ruthenia, 4 vv, 1878).[6]

References

  1. ^ Ronald Grigor Suny, Michael D. Kennedy (Ed.): Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation. University of Michigan Press, P. 127.
  2. ^ Orest Subtelny: Ukraine: A History. Toronto 2000, P. 317.
  3. ^ Kohn, Hans: Pan-Slavism: its history and ideology. University of Notre Dame Press, 1953. P. 62
  4. ^ Kohn, Hans: Die Slawen und der Westen: die Geschichte des Panslawismus. Verlag Herold, 1956 S. 70.
  5. ^ Яків Федорович ГОЛОВАЦЬКИЙ
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8108-7845-7
    .
  7. Shevelov, Yurii (2001) [1989]. "Holovatsky, Yakiv"
    . Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
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