Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 27, 1856
Died
May 28, 1916 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
Also Known As
- Іван Якович Франко
- І. Я. 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.
