Ivan Franko
Poet, Author
1856 – 1916
Who was Ivan Franko?
Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of such renowned figures as William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante Alighieri, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller into the Ukrainian language. Along with Taras Shevchenko, he has had a tremendous impact on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine.
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- Born
- Aug 27, 1856
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - Also known as
- Ivan Yakovych Franko
- Kremin
- Myron
- Zhyvyi
- Іван Якович Франко
- Parents
- Spouses
- Olha Khorunzhynska
(1886/05 - 1916/05/28)
- Olha Khorunzhynska
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians
- Nationality
- Austria-Hungary
- Profession
- Education
- Lviv University
Philosophy
(1875 - ) - PhD, University of Vienna
Philosophy
( - 1893/07/01) - Chernivtsi University
(1891 - )
- Lviv University
- Lived in
- Lviv
- Vienna
- Died
- May 28, 1916
Lviv - Resting place
- Lychakiv Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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