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| Dukhnovych is regarded to be one of the outstanding Ukrainian humanists and educators. In words of ] "he made everything so that forgotten Ruthenians revived spiritually"]. His views were based on Christian principles and idealism. | Dukhnovych is regarded to be one of the outstanding Ukrainian humanists and educators. In words of ] "he made everything so that forgotten Ruthenians revived spiritually"]. His views were based on Christian principles and idealism. | ||
| Dukhnovych also actively participated in the Moscowphile (]) (''Москвофільство'') movement in Western Ukraine at the end of the 19th century. Even though Dukhnovych wrote in the local language he did not believe it to be a separate language nor did he wish to contribute to a creation of a literary language of Carpathian ]. Instead Dukhnovych wrote his scholarly works in a peculiar dialect called ] made of Russian, Church-Slavonic and local Ukrainian. He also believed Ukrainians (Ruthenians) to be one people with Russians and therefore advocated closer cultural ties with Russia. | Dukhnovych also actively participated in the Moscowphile (]) (''Москвофільство'') movement in Western Ukraine at the end of the 19th century. Even though Dukhnovych wrote in the local language he did not believe it to be a separate language nor did he wish to contribute to a creation of a literary language of Carpathian ]. Instead Dukhnovych wrote his scholarly works in a peculiar dialect called ] made of Russian, Church-Slavonic and local Ukrainian. He also believed Ukrainians (Ruthenians) to be one people with Russians and therefore advocated closer cultural ties with Russia. | ||
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Dukhnovych Oleksander, (Duchnovič Alexander)
Dukhnovych Oleksander, (Duchnovič Alexander) (Ukrainian: Олександр Васильович Духнович) (Apri 24, 1803 — March 30,1865) - is a Ukrainian poet, writer, pedagog and social activist.] Alexander Dukhnovych was born in the village of Topoli (now Eastern Slovakia). His was son of a Ukrainian Catholic priest. Alexander went to a Hungarian school in Uzhhorod (1816 to 1821). Later he studied philosophy at an academy in Košice (1821-1823), and theology at the Theological Seminary in Uzhhorod (1824-1827).
In (1827 — 1830, 1832), Dukhnovych works as an archivist, teacher. Later in (1833 — 1838) he works as a Uniate priest in remote villages of Transcarpathia and as a notary in Uzhhorod (1838 — 1844). Dukhnovych starts to write poems in his early years. He wrote in Ukrainian (Ruthenian), Russian and Hungarian languages. His early works are said to have been influenced by Hungarian Romanticism.
Dukhnovych supported education and cultural revival of Carpathian Ruthenians. He saw his role as a defender of Ukrainian culture against Magyarization. In 1850 Dukhnovych establishes the first Ruthenian cultural association, the Prešov Literary Society. The society under his guidance published a series of books. His most famous patriotic poem Ia rusyn byl, ies'm i budu (I Was, Am, and Will Be a Ruthenian) was published as part of an anthology in 1851. This poem would later become the national anthem of Transcarpathian Ukrainians. Dukhnovych also published a number of pedagogical and religious books, elementary school textbook and a Grammar. His most famous scholarly works were The History of the Eparchy of Prjašev (1877), originally published in Latin and later translated in Russian and English, and a History of Carpathian Ruthenians (1853).
His last years were devoted to development of education and schooling among Carpathian Ruthenians. In an effort to forestall the Magyarization of the Ruthenian population Dukhnovych founded in Prešov together with Adolf Dobryansky the St. John the Baptist Society (1862).
On March 30, 1865 Dukhnovych died in Prešov.
Dukhnovych is regarded to be one of the outstanding Ukrainian humanists and educators. In words of Ivan Franko "he made everything so that forgotten Ruthenians revived spiritually"]. His views were based on Christian principles and idealism.
Dukhnovych also actively participated in the Moscowphile (Russophile) (Москвофільство) movement in Western Ukraine at the end of the 19th century. Even though Dukhnovych wrote in the local language he did not believe it to be a separate language nor did he wish to contribute to a creation of a literary language of Carpathian Ruthenians. Instead Dukhnovych wrote his scholarly works in a peculiar dialect called iazychie made of Russian, Church-Slavonic and local Ukrainian. He also believed Ukrainians (Ruthenians) to be one people with Russians and therefore advocated closer cultural ties with Russia.
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