Maria Mykolayivna Hrinchenko (née Hladilina; Ukrainian: Марія Миколаївна Грінченко, Russian: Мария Николаевна Гринченко; 13 July 1863 – 15 July 1928) was a Ukrainian folklorist and pedagogue active at the turn of the 20th century. She played a significant role in the preservation and development of Ukrainian folklore. The four volume dictionary of the Ukrainian language she compiled with her husband, Borys Hrinchenko, is considered "one of the most important works in the history of the modern Ukrainian language". During her life, she collected and published more than 100 Ukrainian folk tales a
Maria Mykolayivna Hrinchenko (née Hladilina; Ukrainian: Марія Миколаївна Грінченко, Russian: Мария Николаевна Гринченко; 13 July 1863 – 15 July 1928) was a Ukrainian folklorist and pedagogue active at the turn of the 20th century. She played a significant role in the preservation and development of Ukrainian folklore. The four volume dictionary of the Ukrainian language she compiled with her husband, Borys Hrinchenko, is considered "one of the most important works in the history of the modern Ukrainian language".
During her life, she collected and published more than 100 Ukrainian folk tales and over 1200 folk proverbs. She also authored research and memoirs on Opanas Markovych, Leonid Hlibov, Ivan Franko, and Borys Hrinchenko, among others.
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Biography She was born in 1863 as Maria Gladilina near Bohodukhiv in the Kharkov Governorate, a daughter of a minor official in the local government. Her family belonged to the merchant class, and their status afforded Maria a good education; she studied history, literature and several foreign languages. Despite her family's Russian ancestry, starting from her youth Maria was an avid reader of Ukrainian literature, with Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar being among her favourite books. Her correspondence from the young years demonstrates her good knowledge of the Ukrainian language. Maria was a member of Kharkiv academy. Her last years at academy were considered as her most active ones. She met her lifelong friends and later correspondents during this part of her education life. She also became close to the new young principal during her last days in the academy. After leaving academy, she attended female seminary for a brief period of ten months, cut short most likely due to poor health. Starting from 1881, Maria worked at a people's school in her native town. In 1884 she married Borys Hrinchenko, a fellow pedagogue whom she had met one year earlier while attending courses in Zmiiv. The couple's wedding ceremony took place…
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Work
Hrinchenko wrote her first works in German, beginning in 1880. Besides a proficiency in German she spoke Ukrainian as well as Polish. Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko were the main inspiration of her early poetry. It was associated with the poet's loneliness, social isolation and by an adoration of Ukrainian nation's freedom. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1898.
Between 1895 and 1899, Hrinchenko wrote a three volume collection of ethnographic materials from Chernihiv and surrounding areas. In 1900, she wrote a collection of Ukrainian fables and folk tales entitled, "Из уст народа" (From the Mouths of the People). In 1901, she wrote a book entitled, "Література украинского фолкльора" (Literature of Ukrainian Folklore).
In 1906, Hrinchenko was a contributor to the Ukrainian daily newspaper, "Громадська думка" (Hromadska Dumka).
Between 1907 and 1909, she and her husband, Borys, published a Ukrainian dictionary entitled, "Словарь української мови".
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Translations
Black Sea Cossacks in Captivity (Чорноморці в неволі, 1889)
Socrates, the Greek Teacher (Сократ, грецький учитель, 1893)
The Good Soul (Добра душа, a translation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1895)
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Original works
How Car Driving Was Invented (Як вигадано машиною їздить, 1896)
Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans (Орлеанська дівчина Жанна Д’Арк, 1897)
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A Good Advice (Добра порада, 1898)
Under Sea Waves (Під морськими хвилями, 1901)
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Abraham Lincoln (Абрахам Лінкольн, 1901)
The Struggle of England's American Colonies for Freedom (Боротьба англійських колоній американських за волю, 1905)
Who is the People's Enemy? (Хто народові ворог?, 1905)
Hetman Petro Sahaidachny (Гетьман Петро Сагайдачний, 1909)
On Marriage in Ukraine during the Old Times (Про одружіння на Вкраїні в давніші часи, 1912)
On State Institutions among All Peoples (Про державний лад у всіх народів, 1917)
On Electoral Law (Про виборче право, 1917)
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Influences
In addition to Shevchenko and Franko, Hrinchenko's work was influenced by Henrik Ibsen, Edmondo De Amicis and Leo Tolstoy.
