Pylyp Morachevskyi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pylyp Morachevskyi

poet

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1806

Place of Birth: Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 26-Sep-1879

Profession: poet, translator, Bible translator

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Pylyp Morachevskyi

  • Pylyp Morachevskyi (Chernihiv Oblast, 1806-Nizhyn, 1879) was a Ukrainian romantic poet, and translator of the New Testament into Ukrainian.
  • He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Khvylymon Haluzenko (???????? ?????????).He was born in the village of Shestovytsya in Chernihiv District to a poor noble family, and studied at the local school in Chernihiv, then later at the University of Kharkiv.
  • He began to work on Ukrainian language texts in the 1850s: "In 1853 Morachevsky submitted his Dictionary of the Little Russian Language, based on the Poltava dialect, to the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
  • During his work on the dictionary, he realized that the Ukrainian language, which by then had been nearly squeezed out of schools, had a practically unlimited vocabulary." Klara Gudzyk, The Day In 1859 he retired with his wife, three sons and two daughters to the village of Shnakivtsi in Nizhynsky County.
  • In the 1860s he began his Bible translations into Ukrainian starting with the Gospels, completed in November 1861, then Acts of the Apostles Revelation and Psalms.
  • He also wrote a Ukrainian "Sacred History" for elementary schools.
  • However the Russian authorities did not permit the publication of his Ukrainian New Testament portions until 27 years after his death in 1906.

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