Hnat Khotkevych, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hnat Khotkevych

Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musicologist, and bandurist.

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1877

Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 08-Oct-1938

Profession: writer, composer, author, art historian, anthropologist, bandurist, ethnographer, music pedagogue

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych (Ukrainian: ???? ?????????? ????????, also Gnat Khotkevich or Ihnat Khotkevych, born December 31, 1877 – died October 8, 1938) was a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musicologist, and bandurist. Khotkevych was a renaissance man and was multi-talented.
Although he was trained as a professional engineer, he is known more as a prolific Ukrainian literary figure, and also as a dramatist, composer and ethnographer, and father of the modern bandura.