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Vasyl Dovhovych (1783, Ötvösfalva (now Zolotarovo) - December 13, 1849, Huszt (now Khust)) is a Ukrainian and Rusyn philosopher, linguist, poet, Transcarpathian academic, and Priest of the Greek Catholic Church.

Biography

He was born in the village of Ötvösfalva, Huszt district, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, in March 1783, (the exact date of birth has not yet been established) in the family of peasants. Here he tutored, and his student was the daughter of the late chief notary of the city, Agnes Wieser. With her help, the talented student mastered the Hungarian language and dedicated a number of lyrical poems to Agnes. But the poet's love was hopeless, and it is not by chance that philosophical notes burst into his work. Along with poems in Hungarian, he continued to write in Latin, and here for the first time he created the poem "Union of Love".

Dovhovych received his higher theological education in the city of Trnava in Slovakia, and completed it at the Uzhhorod Theological Seminary. This handwritten collection of poems by V. Dovhovych was first published in 1982 in the Scientific Collection of the Museum of Ukrainian Culture in Svydnik, Slovakia. But all his works, both poetic and scientific, have not yet been translated into Ukrainian. Dovhovych is the initiator of Latin poetry in Transcarpathia.

He died in Khust on December 14, 1849, and was buried on Zamkova Gora (castle hill) near the Khust Castle.

Literature Й. О. Дзендзелівський. Довгович Василь // Українська мова: Енциклопедія. — Киев: Українська енциклопедія, 2000. ISBN 966-7492-07-9 Мацинський І. Кін. XVIII — перша пол. XIX ст. та життя і діяльність Василя Довговича. // Науковий збірник Музею української культури в Свиднику, т. 10. Пряшів, 1982; Малицький В. Мудрець із гір Карпатських. // Наука і культура. Україна, в. 18. К., 1984.