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Ivan Franko
Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian.
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culture · Ukrainian poet and writer (1856–1916) · writer · journalist · poet · cultural historian · playwright · translator · economist · literary critic · politician · short story writer · also Ivan Franko, Myron, Kremin, Zhyvyi, Ivan Yakovych Franko, Franko
Born 27 August 1856 · Died 28 May 1916 · Q332462
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2019· 1 entry
A Ukrainian-American historical action film The Rising Hawk with budget $5 million was released
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2013· 1 entry
An additional plaque was added, after an academic symposium had clarified Franko's relationship to Judaism, mentioned anti-Semitic stereotypes in Franko's work as well as close Jewish friends
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2012· 1 entry
Jewish Journal: Ivan Franko, friend of Zionists and enemy of Jewish capitalists
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2001· 1 entry
One of Franko's iconic poems, Moses, was adopted as an opera by Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk
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1996· 1 entry
The United Kingdom freely transferred its Antarctic station Faraday to Ukraine, and it was later renamed the Vernadsky Research Base
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1993· 1 entry
The then Austrian vice chancellor Erhard Busek had a commemorative bust installed in the university building on Ringstrasse, opposite Übungsraum 1 and 2 at the Department of Germanistik
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1962· 1 entry
The city of Stanyslaviv in Western Ukraine (formerly Stanisławów, Poland) was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk in the poet's honor
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1933· 1 entry
A monument depicting a stone-hewer, the main figure of one of Franko's famous poems, was opened at the site of his grave
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1916· 2 entries
Died 1916-05-28.
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Josef Zastyretz and Harald Hjärne proposed Franko for the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature, but he died before the nomination materialized
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1904· 1 entry
Franko took part in an ethnographic expedition in the Boyko areas with Filaret Kolesa, Fedir Vovk, and a Russian ethnographer
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1903· 1 entry
– a renegade Russian monk, consecrated a bishop on Mount Athos – to free the Ukrainians of all the religious and political groups in Canada who were wrangling to assimilate them
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1902· 1 entry
Students and activists in Lviv, embarrassed that Franko was living in poverty, purchased a house for him in the city
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1899· 1 entry
Franko, together with the Lviv historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, founded the National Democratic Party, where he worked until 1904 when he retired from political life
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1898· 2 entries
Where he called Marxism "a religion founded on dogmas of hatred and class struggle"
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In the journal Zhytie i Slovo, which he and his wife founded
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1893· 1 entry
Franko met with Zionist leader Theodor Herzl, and later wrote the foreword to the Lviv publication of his work Der Judenstaat
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1891· 2 entries
Studied at Chernivtsi University (1891).
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Franko attended the Franz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz (where he prepared a dissertation on Ivan Vyshensky), and then attended the University of Vienna to defend a doctoral dissertation on the spiritual romance Barlaam
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1888· 1 entry
Franko was a contributor to the journal Pravda, which, along with his association with compatriots from Dnieper Ukraine, led to a third arrest in 1889
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1878· 1 entry
Franko and Pavlyk founded the magazine Hromadskyi Druh ("Public Friend")
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1877· 1 entry
Along with Mykhailo Pavlyk and Ostap Terletsky, among others
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1875· 2 entries
Graduated from the Drohobych Realschule, and continued on to Lviv University, where he studied classical philosophy, Ukrainian language and literature
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Studied at Lviv University (1875).
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1856· 1 entry
Born 1856-08-27.
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