36-472: Franko may refer to: Franko (name) , a given name and surname Franko (bishop of Poznań) , 11th-century Polish bishop FranKo , a British pop rock band Franko: The Crazy Revenge , a 1994 computer game Franko Escarpment , Antarctica See also [ edit ] Franco (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
72-472: A huge impression on Ivan Franko. It later developed into a long political and literary association. Franko's own socialist writings and his association with Drahomanov led to his arrest in 1877, along with Mykhailo Pavlyk and Ostap Terletsky , among others. They were accused of belonging to a secret socialist organization, which did not in fact exist. However, the nine months in prison did not discourage his political writing or activities. In prison, Franko wrote
108-624: 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. Within two years, the charismatic Seraphim built the notorious Tin Can Cathedral in Winnipeg's North-End, which claimed nearly 60,000 adherents. Today, the bust of Ivan Franko, which stands triumphantly on a pillar in the courtyard of
144-439: A severe criticism of Ukrainian Social Democracy and the socialism of Marx and Engels , was published in 1898 in the journal Zhytie i Slovo , which he and his wife founded. He continued his anti- Marxist stance in a collection of poetry entitled Mii smarahd ( My Emerald ) in 1898, where he called Marxism "a religion founded on dogmas of hatred and class struggle". His long-time collaborative association with Mykhailo Drahomanov
180-573: A village blacksmith of German Roman Catholic descent. For certain the Franko family was already living in Galicia when the country was incorporated into Austria in 1772. Ivan Franko's great-grandfather Teodor (Fed) Franko baptized his children in the Greek Catholic church . Franko's mother Maria came from a family of petty nobility . The Kulczyckis (or Kulchytskys) were an ancient noble family hailing from
216-516: A year later. Franko married Olha Khoruzhynska from Kyiv in May 1886, to whom he dedicated the collection Z vershyn i nyzyn ( From Tops and Bottoms ), a book of poetry and verse. The couple lived in Vienna for some time, where Ivano Franko met with Theodor Herzl and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk . His wife was to later suffer from a debilitating mental illness due to the death of the first-born son, Andriy, one of
252-768: The Polish uprising of 1863 . Franko's distant relative, aunt Koszycka, with whom he lived while studying in Drohobych, spoke Polish and Ruthenian. Ivan Franko attended school in the village Yasenytsia Sylna from 1862 until 1864, and from there attended the Basilian monastic school in Drohobych until 1867. His father died before Ivan was able to graduate from the gymnasium ( realschule ), but his stepfather supported Ivan in continuing his education. Soon, however, Franko found himself completely without parents after his mother died as well and later
288-747: The Americas, Ivan Franko's legacy is alive to this day. Cyril Genik , the best man at Franko's wedding, emigrated to Canada. Genik became the first Ukrainian to be employed by the Canadian government – working as an immigration agent. With his cousin Ivan Bodrug, and Bodrug's friend Ivan Negrich, the three were known as the Березівѕка Трійця (the Bereziv Triumvirate) in Winnipeg. Imbued by Franko's nationalism and liberalism, Genik and his Triumvirate had no compunction about bringing Bishop Seraphim to Winnipeg in 1903 –
324-646: The Dutch West Indies Martina Franko (born 1976), Canadian soccer player Matej Franko (born 2001), Slovak footballer Nahan Franko (1861–1930), American violinist, conductor, and concert promoter Oksana Franko (1939–2021), Ukrainian historian, ethnologist, archivist and educator Petro Franko (1890–1941), Ukrainian educator, military leader, and politician Sam Franko (1857–1937), American violinist and conductor See also [ edit ] Franco (name) [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
360-688: The Israelite search for a homeland and the Ukrainian desire for independence in In Death of Cain (1889) and Moses (1905). Stolen Happiness (1893) is considered as his best dramatic masterpiece. In total, Franko has written more than 1,000 works. He was widely promoted in Ukraine during the Soviet period, particularly for his poem " Kameniari " (groundbreakers) which contains revolutionary political ideas, hence earning him
396-566: The Ivan Franko Manor on McGregor St. in Winnipeg, looks fondly across the street. Two churches stood here, the first (this building has since been demolished) that Seraphim blessed and opened for service upon his arrival, before building his Cathedral. The second was the Independent Greek Church (this building is still intact) of which Ivan Bodrug became the head after Seraphim was removed. Franko's consciousness had been bold, and on
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#1732852150851432-590: The Ukrainian-controlled part of Ukraine there were 552 streets named after Ivan Franko. He is also associated with the name Kameniar for his famous poem, "Kameniari" ("The Rock Breakers"), especially during the time of the Soviet regime . Although he was a socialist , his political views mostly did not correspond to Soviet ideology . On 8 April 1978, the astronomer Nikolai Chernykh named an asteroid in honor of Franko by way of this name, 2428 Kamenyar . In
468-595: The Years of My Youth ). In the last nine years of his life, Franko seldom physically wrote, as he suffered from rheumatism which eventually paralyzed his right arm. He was assisted as amanuensis by his sons, particularly Andriy. In 1916, Josef Zastyretz and Harald Hjärne proposed Franko for the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature , but he died before the nomination materialized. Franko died in poverty at 4 pm on 28 May 1916. Those who came to pay their respects saw him lying on
504-1623: The 💕 Franko is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name [ edit ] Franko (bishop of Poznań) , 11th-century Polish bishop Franko Andrijašević (born 1991), Croatian footballer Franko B , Franko Bosisio (born 1960), Italian performance artist Franko Bogdan (born 1965), Croatian footballer Franko Božac (born 1974), Croatian accordionist Franko Burraj (born 1998), Albanian sprinter Franko Bushati (born 1985), Albanian basketball player Franko Grgić (born 2003), Croatian swimmer Franko Kaštropil (born 1984), Croatian basketball player Franko Kovačević (born 1999), Croatian footballer Franko Luin (1941–2005), Italian-born Swedish type designer of Slovene origin Franko Nakić (born 1972), Croatian-born Greek basketball player Franko Paul (born 1995), Indian footballer Franko Šango (born 1992), Croatian basketball player Franko Simatović (born 1950), Serbian intelligence officer of Croatian descent Franko Škugor (born 1987), Croatian tennis player Franko Uzelac (born 1994), Croatian footballer Nickname or pseudonym [ edit ] Franko Fraize , British rapper Franko House (born 1994), American basketball player Surname [ edit ] Ivan Franko (1856–1916), Ukrainian writer and political activist Jure Franko (born 1962), Slovenian-Yugoslav alpine skier Mariana Franko (died after 1777), free colored in Curaçao in
540-535: The journal was reborn under the names Dzvin ( Bell ) and Molot ( Mallet ). Franko published a series of books called Dribna Biblioteka ("Petty Library") from 1878 until his second arrest for arousing the peasants to civil disobedience in 1880. After three months in the Kolomyia prison, the writer returned to Lviv. His impressions of this exile are reflected in his novel Na Dni ( At the Bottom ). Upon his release, Franko
576-513: The name Kameniar (groundbreaker). English translations of Ivan Franko's works include: An anthology containing short stories and novellas by Franko entitled Faces of Hardship was published in 2021. In 1962 the city of Stanyslaviv in Western Ukraine ( formerly Stanisławów, Poland) was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk in the poet's honor. On the Centennial of Franko's PhD defence in 1993,
612-459: The novel Zakhar Berkut , translated Goethe 's Faust and Heine's poem Deutschland: ein Wintermärchen into Ukrainian. He also wrote a series of articles on Taras Shevchenko , and reviewed the collection Khutorna Poeziya ( Khutir Poetry ) by Panteleimon Kulish . Franko worked for the journal Zorya ( Sunrise ), and became a member of the editing board of the newspaper Dilo ( Action )
648-533: The reasons that Franko would not leave Lviv for treatment in Kyiv in 1916, shortly before his death. In 1888, 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. After this two-month prison term, he co-founded the Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party with Mykhailo Drahomanov and Mykhailo Pavlyk. Franko
684-689: The same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franko_(name)&oldid=1245775643 " Categories : Given names Surnames Croatian masculine given names Masculine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko ( Ukrainian : Іван Якович Франко , pronounced [iˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ] ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916)
720-505: The satire Smorhonska Akademiya ( The Smorhon Academy ). After release, he studied the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , contributed articles to the Polish newspaper Praca ( Labor ) and helped organize workers' groups in Lviv . In 1878 Franko and Pavlyk founded the magazine Hromads'kyi Druh ("Public Friend"). Only two issues were published before it was banned by the government; however,
756-624: The table covered with nothing but a ragged sheet. His burial and burial clothes were paid for by his admirers, and none of his family came to visit him. Franko was buried at the Lychakivskiy Cemetery in Lviv. Soon after Franko's death, the world witnessed the creation of two Ukrainian republics. Olha Fedorivna Khoruzhynska (m. 1886-1941), a graduate of the Institute of Noble Dames in Kharkiv and later
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#1732852150851792-471: 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. In 2013, 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. As of November 2018 on
828-459: The title Franko . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franko&oldid=1060061190 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Franko (name) From Misplaced Pages,
864-599: The two-year higher courses in Kyiv , she knew several languages and played piano, died in 1941 According to Roland Franko, his grandfather was 1.74 metres (5.7 ft) tall, had red hair, always wore mustache and the Ukrainian embroidered shirt ( vyshyvanka ) even with a dress-coat. Some of Franko's descendants emigrated to the US and Canada. His grand-nephew, Yuri Shymko , is a Canadian politician and human rights activist living in Toronto, who
900-591: The village of Kulchytsi in the Sambir Raion . Her mother was Ludwika Kulczycka, widow with six children from Yasenytsia Silna. Researchers describe Franko's mother's nationality as Polish or Ukrainian. The petty gentry in Eastern Galicia often retained elements of Polish culture and fostered a sense of solidarity with the Polish nobility, but they also Ruthenized and blended in with the surrounding peasantry. For example, Franko's uncle Ivan Kulczycki took part in
936-471: The works of such renowned figures as William Shakespeare , Lord Byron , Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Dante Alighieri , Victor Hugo , Adam Mickiewicz , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller . His translations appeared on the stage of the Ruska Besida Theatre . Along with Taras Shevchenko , he has had a tremendous influence on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine. Franko
972-576: The young Ivan stayed with totally unrelated people. In 1875, he graduated from the Drohobych Realschule, and continued on to Lviv University , where he studied classical philosophy, Ukrainian language and literature . It was at this university that Franko began his literary career, with various works of poetry and his novel Petriï i Dovbushchuky published by the students' magazine Druh ( Friend ), whose editorial board he would later join. A meeting with Mykhailo Drahomanov at Lviv University made
1008-540: Was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic , journalist, translator , economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy , ethnographer , and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language . He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in Western Ukraine . In addition to his own literary work, he also translated into Ukrainian
1044-453: Was born in the Ukrainian village of Nahuievychi , then located in the Austrian kronland of Galicia , today part of Drohobych Raion , Lviv Oblast , Ukraine. As a child, he was baptized as Ivan by Father Yosyp Levytsky, known as a poet and the author of the first Galician- Ruthenian Hramatyka ("Grammar"), who was later exiled to Nahuyevychi for a "sharp tongue". At home, however, Ivan
1080-507: Was called Myron because of a local superstitious belief that naming a person by a different name will dodge death. Franko's family in Nahuyevychi was considered "well-to-do", with their own servants and 24 hectares (59 acres) of owned property. Franko's family possibly had German origins, being descendants of German colonists. Ivan Franko believed it to be true. That statement is also supported by Timothy Snyder who describes Yakiv Franko as
1116-525: Was considered the foremost expert of Slavic languages at the time. Franko received his doctorate of philosophy from University of Vienna on July 1, 1893. He was appointed lecturer in the history of Ukrainian literature at Lviv University in 1894; however, he was not able to chair the Department of Ukrainian literature there because of opposition from Vicegerent Kazimierz Badeni and Galician conservative circles. One of Franko's articles, Sotsiializm i sotsiial-demokratyzm ( Socialism and Social Democracy ),
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1152-834: Was elected to Canada's Parliament as well as the Ontario Legislature during the 1980s. Lesyshyna Cheliad and Dva Pryiateli ( Two Friends ) were published in the literary almanac Dnistrianka in 1876. Later that year he wrote his first collection of poetry, Ballads and Tales . His first of the stories in the Boryslav series was published in 1877. Franko depicted the harsh experience of Ukrainian workers and peasants in his novels Boryslav Laughs (1881–1882) and Boa Constrictor (1878). His works deal with Ukrainian nationalism and history ( Zakhar Berkut , 1883), social issues ( Basis of Society , 1895 and Withered Leaves , 1896), and philosophy ( Semper Tiro , 1906). He has drawn parallels to
1188-441: Was kept under police surveillance. At odds with the administration, Franko was expelled from Lviv University, an institution that would be renamed Ivan Franko National University of Lviv after the writer's death. Franko was an active contributor to the journal Svit ( The World ) in 1881. He wrote more than half of the material, excluding the unsigned editorials. Later that year, Franko moved to his native Nahuievychi, where he wrote
1224-577: Was living in poverty, purchased a house for him in the city. He lived there for the remaining 14 years of his life. The house is now the site of the Ivan Franko Museum. In 1904 Franko took part in an ethnographic expedition in the Boyko areas with Filaret Kolesa , Fedir Vovk , and a Russian ethnographer. 1914 saw publication of his jubilee collection, Pryvit Ivanovi Frankovi ( Greeting Ivan Franko ), and of his collection Iz lit moyeyi molodosti ( From
1260-726: Was strained due to their diverging views on socialism and the national question. Franko would later accuse Drahomanov of tying Ukraine's fate to that of Russia in Suspil'nopolitychni pohliady M. Drahomanova ( The Sociopolitical Views of M. Drahomanov ), published in 1906. After a split in the Radical Party, in 1899, Franko, together with the Lviv historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky , founded the National Democratic Party, where he worked until 1904 when he retired from political life. In 1902, students and activists in Lviv, embarrassed that Franko
1296-660: Was the Radical party's candidate for seats in the parliament of Austria and the Galicia Diet , but never won an election. In 1891, 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 and Josaphat under the supervision of Vatroslav Jagić , who
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