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Ivan Franko

Died in 1916

Ivan Franko was born on 27 August 1856 in Nahuievychi, in Austrian Galicia, the son of a village blacksmith. After leaving the gymnasium in Drohobych in 1875, he studied at the University of Lviv. Arrested in 1877 for socialist propaganda, then again in 1880 and in 1889, he lived chiefly by journalism and founded the Radical Party with Drahomanov and Pavlyk. A doctor of the University of Vienna in 1893, he was kept from the chair of Ukrainian literature at Lviv by the opposition of the governor Badeni. He translated Shakespeare, Byron, Dante and Goethe, and died in Lviv on 28 May 1916.

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