Borys Hrinchenko

Borys Hrinchenko
Native name
Борис Дмитрович Грінченко (in Ukrainian)
Born(1863-12-09)December 9, 1863
Kharkiv Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedMay 6, 1910(1910-05-06) (aged 46)
OspedalettiProvince of Imperia, Italy
Resting placeBaikove Cemetery, Kyiv
Pen nameVasyl Chaichenko
Occupationprose writer, poet, pedagogue, ethnographer, historian, publicist, activist, politician
LanguageUkrainian, Russian
NationalityUkrainian (ethnicity)
CitizenshipRussian Empire (subject)
Alma materKharkiv University
Period1880s - 1910
Genrenovels, poems, articles, ballads
Subjectnationalism, anti-chauvinism, cultural revival
Notable worksTo my countrymen (1898)
SpouseMaria Hrinchenko (Gladylina)[1]
ChildrenAnastasiia
Museum of Borys Hrinchenko in Perevalsk Raion, Donbas, former private school of Khrystyna, a wife of Oleksiy Alchevskyi

Borys Dmytrovych Hrinchenko (Ukrainian: Бори́с Дми́трович Грінче́нко, Russian: Бори́с Дми́триевич Гринче́нко; December 9, 1863 – May 6, 1910) was a classical Ukrainian prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and ethnographer. He was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Author of the first dictionary of the Ukrainian language together with his wife, Maria Hrinchenko, and editor of a number of Ukrainian periodicals, he advocated the spread of the Ukrainian language in schools and institutions.[2][3]

Hrinchenko was an editor of various Ukrainian periodicals. He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Democratic Party. Hrinchenko also was an author of seminal ethnographic, lexicographic, and pedagogical works, literary studies, historical reviews, the first textbooks in the Ukrainian language, particularly Native word, the school-book for reading. He was an editor of the four-volume Словарь української мови (Ukrainian Dictionary; "Kievskaia starina" publishing, Kyiv 1907–1909).

One of the organizers and the first director of the Prosvita Society in Kyiv.

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  2. ^ "Animals, Folk Tales and Tragedy: the family story behind a Ukrainian reading book". blogs.bl.uk. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  3. ^ Альошина, Марина Дмитрівна (2013). "Modernizing trends in translation works by Borys Hrinchenko's family". Scientific Journal "Scientific Horizons" (in Ukrainian) (1): 38–43.