Ivan Franko
Birth date
August 27, 1856
Death date
May 28, 1916
Place of birth
Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
Profession
Writing
Age
59 years
Biography
Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
Also known as
Іван Якович ФранкоІ. Я. Франко
