Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych ( Ukrainian: О́сип Ю́рій Федько́вич, romanized: Osyp Jurij Feďkovyč, 8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator. [1]
Fedkovych lived in Chernivtsi, where he was a closed associate of Rudolf Neubauer, the editor of Bukowina, the first German literary supplement in the city, and also the creator of the German language literary circle in Chernivtsi. [2]
He edited the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina.
In 1989 Chernivtsi University was renamed Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in his memory.