Осип Маковей: громадський діяч, публіцист, пропаґатор української культури кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ ст.

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the public, political, publishing and literary critical activity of Osyp Makovey. The legacy of one of the organizers of the cultural and literary life in Galicia, Bukovyna and the Upper Dnieper Ukraine (Naddniprianshchyna), his relationships with the contemporaries – Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Olha Kobylianska are under study. The author of the article analyses Makovey’s work as the editor of Literary and Scientific Bulletin (Literaturno-Naukovyi Visnyk), Bukovyna newspaper as well as monographic researches dedicated to Yuriy Fedkovych and Panteleimon Kulish. The relevance of the studied topic stems from the modern reader’s attention to the public and political as well as cultural life of Galicia, Bukovyna and the Upper Dnieper Ukraine of the late 19th – early 20th c. Applied research methods: biographical, historiographical, textological, generalization method. Conclusions: Osyp Makovey is one of the leading representatives of the public and political as well as cultural life of Galicia, Bukovyna and the Upper Dnieper Ukraine of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. With his publishing and literary critical articles about the classics of the Ukrainian literature, he contributed to the Europeanization of the Ukrainian literature, affirmation of the democratic principles in the public, political and cultural life of Ukrainians of that epoch.