Yuriy Fedkovych

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Adalbertovych and the family name is Fedkovych.

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

Jurij Fedkowytsch

Ukrainian coin featuring Yuriy Fedkovych

Biography

Fedkovych lived in Chernivtsi, where he was a closed associate of Rudolf Neubauer, the editor of Bukowina, the first German literary supplement in the city, and also the creator of the German language literary circle in Chernivtsi.^[2]

He edited the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina.

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

Works

• ' The soldier's daughter'. Translated by Roma Franko. In Sonia Morris, ed., From days gone by: selected prose fiction, Toronto: Language Lanterns Publications, 2008.

See also

• Osyp Makovei