Ivan Franko was a Ukrainian writer, poet, translator, social and literary critic, and political activist born in 1856 in Naguyevychi, Ukraine to a village blacksmith's family. He received an education through various primary schools and gymnasiums, eventually earning a PhD from the University of Lviv. Franko had a prolific career producing over 5,500 works spanning books, translations, scientific writings, and letters. He had important friendships with other Ukrainian intellectuals and activists of his time. Franko supported children's education and had a special love for village children. He died in 1916 in Lviv, where he was buried and is commemorated through the Ivan Franko Estate Museum.

1. Ivan Franko
«I am the son of the people
that go up the hill ...»

2. He was born on 27 August
1856 in Naguyevychi,
Drohobych region in the
family of a village
blacksmith, Yakov Franko
and Mary Kulchytska.

3. Ivan was an
extremely able child
for studing.

4. • Primary education: primary
school in the village of
Yasenytsya Silna.
• Monastery School in
Drohobych.
• gymnasium in Drohobych.
• University in Lviv
• defended his thesis in Vienna
and got the degree of the
Phylosophy Doctor.
He studied at:

5. There are over 5500 works of I. Franko: 1020
books, 630 translations almost from all
languages of the world, 1200 scientific works,
1650 publication over 1000 letters to different
scientists and friends.

6. Ivan Franko and Olha Khoruzkynska
marriage became a political link of
the East and the West.
Children FrankoFranco and his wife

7. Franko loved all children very
much, but especially he
loved village children. He
always found time to speak
with them and listen to their
stories.

8. Their friends were Lesya Ukrainka,
O. Kotsiubynska, M. Dragomanov,
M. Pavlyk, M. Statytsky, M. Lysenko,
I. Nechai-Levytsky.

9. His best friends were B. Grynchenko
and P. Gradovskiy

10. I. Franko Estate Museum in
Naguyevychi.

11. I. Franko died on the 28th
of May, 1916 . Hundreds
of different European
newspapers published the
obituary. I. Franko was
buried in Lychakov
cementary in Lviv.