Ivan Franko
Details
Birth Date 27 Aug 1856
Place of Birth Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
Personal Name Ivan Franko
Also known as
- Іван Якович Франко
- Іван Франко
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.