Illia Kuziv

Illia (Ilko) Stepanovych Kuziv (; 25 July 1874, Denysiv, now Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast – 14 November 1916, Northampton, Pennsylvania, US) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, writer, translator, publicist, and folklorist. He was the brother of Mykhailo Kuziv.

Biography Graduated from the gymnasium in Ternopil, where he began recording folk songs, which he sent to Ivan Franko. Studied theology at Lviv University.

Works In 1900, he published the work "Korotkyi pohliad na istoriiu chytalni Ruskoi dukhovnoi seminarii u Lvovi".

Translated short stories by Slovenian writers F. Meško, J. Krek, and J. Stritar, (all in 1900), and the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, with whom he was on friendly terms.

At the suggestion of Fr. Kuziv, the Slovenian cultural activist J. Šlebinger translated Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar.

The recordings of folk songs of various genres made by Fr. Kuziv are kept in the collections of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature and the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology (Kyiv).