Volodymyr Hnatiuk
| Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ukrainian: Володимир Гнатюк |
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk
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May 9, 1871 Velesniv, Eastern Halychyna |
| Died | October 6, 1926 (aged 55) Lviv |
| Occupation | ethnographer, writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist |
| Language | Ukrainian |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Notable awards | Kotliarevsky’ Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Volodymyr Hnatiuk (1871-1926), writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.
Hnatiuk focused primarily on West Ukraine, gathering information about folk songs, legends, customs and dialects.
He was a close companion of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Ivan Franko. 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. Editor of the Shevchenko"s Scientific Society publication and “The Ukrainian Historical Journal”. He was the director of the Ukrainian Union of publishing.
Volodymyr Hnatiuk was born on May 9, 1871 in Velesniv of Buchach povit (county, now Ternopil Oblast (region)). He studied in the Buchach and Stanislavska high school and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
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 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 in Lviv.
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.
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