Borys Hrinchenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Borys Hrinchenko

writer and politician

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1863

Place of Birth: Kharkov Governorate

Date of Death: 06-May-1910

Profession: writer, politician, historian, author, journalist, anthropologist, linguist, lexicographer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Borys Dmytrovych Hrinchenko (Ukrainian: ????? ????????? ?????????, 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. Hrinchenko was an editor of various Ukrainian periodicals.
He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Radical 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 ??????? ??????????? ???? (Ukrainian Dictionary; "Kievskaya starina" publishing, Kiev 1907–1909). One of the organizers and the first director of the Prosvita Society in Kiev.