Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, economist, and political activist. He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist movement in western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Goethe and Schiller into the Ukrainian language. Wikipedia
Franko, Ivan (pseuds: Dzhedzhalyk, Zhyvyi, Kremin, Myron, etc), b 27 August 1856 in Nahuievychi (today Ivan Franko), Drohobych county , Galicia, d 28 May 1916 in Lviv. www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/F/R/FrankoIvan.htm
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Founded in June 1973, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) serves as a focal point for graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research in Ukrainian language, literature, and history as well as in anthropology, arc www.huri.harvard.edu/index.html
August 27, 1857 Franko was born in the village of Nahuievychi, in the Drohobych county of eastern Halychyna, which is now in the Lviv oblast. www.franko.lviv.ua/ifranko/life_of_ivan_franko.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ivan Franko. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Franko
Actual Philosophy in Lviv has announced its participation in celebrations back 2004 when we posted the photographed essay about Ivan Franko's Estate Museum in Lviv. www.is.lviv.ua/~cathyway/franko_museum.htm
