Ivan Franko

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1856-08-27

Deathday 1916-05-28 (59 years old)

Place of Birth Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]

Also Known As Іван Якович Франко, Ив. Франко

Ivan Franko

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.