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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