id: 36802
Title: New pages to the biography of Alexander Hizhdeu
Authors: Boiko Y.
Keywords: Alexander Hizhdeu, culture, 19th century, Vinnytsia
Date of publication: 2024-08-05 11:22:49
Last changes: 2024-08-05 11:22:49
Year of publication: 2024
Summary: The purpose of the research and its novelty. An important period in the cultural history of Moldova and Romania in the 19th century is associated with the name of Alexander Hizhdeu (1811–1872). He was formed as a linguist, philosopher, naturalist, ethnographer, writer, and publicist in Ukraine – first among the students of Kharkiv University (1828–1832), later as a gymnasium teacher and lawyer in Vinnytsia and Kamianets-Podilskyi (1840–1850). The few studies about Alexander Hizhdeu can be divided into art-philosophical and biographical-documentary. In the former, his personality is either not traceable, or excessively idealized for reasons of Moldovan-Romanian national mythology. Only two works of the second group are written in Romanian on a documentary basis (Arbure, 1898; Liviu, 1932). The short but interesting period of A. Hizhdeu’s stay in Vinnytsia (1840–1842), where he worked as a teacher in the local gymnasium, is the least known to our time. 15 documentary sources from the funds of the State Archive of the Vinnytsia region are offered translated into English, which expands the possibilities of their use by researchers outside Ukraine as well. According to the content, the documents are combined into four novel groups: «Arrival at the gymnasium» (official biographical data, appointment as a teacher at the Vinnytsia gymnasium, correspondence with the director of the institution), «Caring Brother» (the unsuccessful intervention of Boleslav «Caring brother» (the unsuccessful intervention of Boleslav Hizhdeu in the financial relations between the teachers who held student’s apartments, which had unpleasant consequences for A. Hizhdeu), «Inquisitive student» (conflict with a Polish student regarding the division of Poland and the Russian autocracy), «Debts» (A. Hizhdeu’s attitude towards debts to representatives of various segments of the population). The combination of new data with those published earlier allows a better understanding of the reasons for the creative crisis that befell the comprehensively gifted man in the mid-1850s and continued, deepening, until the last days of his life. The methodology is based on a systematic approach using the comparative typological method of studying various sources. Conclusions. According to archival sources and the observations of contemporaries, the basis of the crisis of a unique personality was progressive sociopathy, the first signs of which were visible already in his youth and gradually exhausted the physical and spiritual strength of Alexander Hizhdeu, one of the outstanding initiators of the new culture of the Eastern Romanic peoples.
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Publication type: Статті у наукових фахових виданнях України (Copernicus та інші)
Publication: Актуальні питання гуманітарних наук: міжвузівський збірник наукових праць молодих вчених Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. 2024. Т. 1. Вип. 75. С. 16-27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24919/2308-4863/75-1-3
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