Yuriy Fedkovych

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Osyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych ({{langx|uk|О́сип-Ю́рій Адальбертович Федько́вич}}, 8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator.'Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych', Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States 20: 47-8 (1999), pp.105ff.

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.{{cite news |last1=Tsurkan |first1=Kate |title=What Is the Secret of Chernivtsi?: A Conversation with Igor Pomerantsev |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-is-the-secret-of-chernivtsi-a-conversation-with-igor-pomerantsev/ |work=Los Angeles Review of Books |date=26 December 2022}}

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.