Yuriy Fedkovych

Jurij Fedkowytsch
Ukrainian coin featuring Yuriy Fedkovych

Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych (Ukrainian: О́сип Ю́рій Федько́вич, Osyp Jurij Feďkovyč, 8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator.[1]

Biography

He edited the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina.

In 1989 Chernivtsi University was renamed Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in his memory.

Works

References

  1. ↑ 'Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych', Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States 20: 47-8 (1999), pp.105ff.
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