Franko Ivan Yakovlevich - famous Ukrainian writer, poet, scientist, publicist. In 1915, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but premature death disrupted the consideration of his candidacy.
Biography
Ivan Yakovlevich was born in August 1856 on the twenty-seventh in the small village of Naguevichi in the family of a wealthy farmer-blacksmith. His mother, Maria Kulchitskaya, a representative of the ruined Kulchitsky family, was thirty-three years younger than her husband. Franco in his writings always described his childhood in the brightest colors. His father died in 1865, and the boy was suffering a loss.
Ivan began to receive school education in Yasenitsa-Solnoy. Having studied there for only two years, he was transferred to the school at the monastery. After completing his studies, Franco began tutoring. Having a great love of reading and despite serious financial difficulties, Franco regularly allocated money from his budget to replenish his personal book collection.
In 1875 he entered the University of Lviv at the Faculty of Philosophy. There he became a member of the Russophile community, which popularized the "paganism" and used it as a literary language. The first works of Franco are written on it. In 1877 he was imprisoned, where he spent nine months in the same cell with murderers and thieves.
Career
In 1885, he took over as editor-in-chief in the print publication Zorya. For two years he was extremely successful in publishing a newspaper. He attracted many talented writers from Little Russia. But despite this, the "Narodniks" were skeptical of the editor, they were embarrassed by excessive love for Russian writers, in their opinion it was posturing and "Moskvofilstvo". Moving away from work in Zora, Ivan Franko took up work directly in The People.
The party had a big bias in favor of the peasants, which impressed the talented writer. Work in the party lasted until 1893. In 1893, Franco decided to engage in scientific work and returned to the University of Lviv. In 1895 he was elected to the department of Old Russian and Ukrainian literature. However, he could not take the post, the Galician governor expressed serious indignation at the imprisonment of Franco and forbade him to be appointed professor.
Since 1898, Ivan Yakovlevich took the chair of one of the editors of the journal "Scientific and Literary Bulletin", which was published by the Shevchenko Society.
