Stefan Iavors'kyi

Jakub Niedźwiedź (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski/ Jagiellonian University of Krakow)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 1658
Died 8 Dec 1722

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Russia; Ukraine; Poland

Activities

Primary

Poet
Religious leader
Religious writer

Resources

Stefan Iavors′kyi (Stefan Yavorsky; Polish: Stefan Jaworski; 1658–1722) was a Ukrainian and Russian writer, scholar, hierarch of the Orthodox Church, politician, bibliophile, and patron of educational institutions and literature. He was one of the major representatives of baroque poetry and intellectual life in Ukraine in the second half of the seventeenth century. In the first years of the eighteenth century he co-operated with Tsar Peter I and was responsible for the reform of the Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire. He wrote in Latin, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Church Slavonic.

Iavors′kyi was born Simeon Ivanovych Iavors′kyi in 1658, probably in Iavoriv (Jaworów) in the Ruthenian …

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Citation: Niedźwiedź, Jakub. "Stefan Iavors'kyi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 October 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14500, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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