Osyp Makovei

The board and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida, Lviv, 31 October 1898: Sitting in the first row: Mykhailo Pavlyk, Yevheniya Yaroshynska, Natalia Kobrynska, Olha Kobylianska, Sylvester Lepkyi, Andrii Chaikovskyi, Kost Pankivskyi. In the second row: Ivan Kopach, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Osyp Makovei, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Kolessa, Bohdan Lepky. Standing in the third row: Ivan Petrushevych, Filaret Kolessa, Yosyp Kyshakevych, Ivan Trush, Denys Lukiianovych, Mykola Ivasyuk. Osyp Makovei (; 23 August 1867 – 21 August 1925) was a Ukrainian writer, critic, literary historian, publicist, translator, and educator.

Biography Osyp Makovei was born on 23 August 1867 in Yavoriv, now in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine.

In 1887 he graduated from the Lviv Ukrainian Gymnasium, in 1893 from University of Lviv, and in 1899 from the University of Vienna.

In 1899 he began teaching Ukrainian language and literature at the Chernivtsi Teachers' Seminary. From 1910 he worked at the Lviv Women's Seminary. In 1913–1914 and 1918–1925 he worked as the director of the teachers' seminary in Zalishchyky. poetry collections "Poezyi Osypa Makovei's" (1895), "Podorozh do Kyiv's" (1897), books of short prose "Nashi znakomoni" (1901), "Opovidannia" (1904), "“Pustelnyk z Putny” i ynshi opovidannia" (1909), "Krovave pole" (1921), “Pryzhmurenym okom” (1923), poems "Revun" (1911), "Novyk", novels "Zalissia" (1897) and "Yaroshenko" (1905), songs "Haidamatska pisnia" (1901) and "Striletskyi marsh" (1915).

In 1910, he compiled a valuable collection of "Materiialy do zhytiepysy Osypa Yuriia Hordynskoho-Fedkovycha" (vol. 4), and in 1911 he published a thorough monograph, "Zhytiepys' Osypa Yuriia Hordynskoho-Fedkovycha". In the Notes of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1903, vols. 51, 54) he published the study "Try halytski hramatyky (Ivan Mohylnytskyi, Yosyp Levytskyi, and Yosyp Lozynskyi)". Makovei was also engaged in collecting folklore and resolutely fought against Muscovism.

Makovei's is the author of literary and critical essays on Olha Kobylianska, Andrii Chaikovskyi, Tymotei Borduliak, Pavlo Hrabovskyi, and Stepan Kovaliv, as well as a series of reviews and commentaries. He was also engaged in collecting folklore and resolutely fought against Muscophilia.