1. Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
Ivan Franko was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in Western Ukraine.
Ivan Franko's translations appeared on the stage of the Ruska Besida Theatre.
At home Ivan Franko was called Myron because of a local superstitious belief that naming a person by a different name will dodge death.
For certain the Ivan Franko family was already living in Galicia when the country was incorporated into Austria in 1772.
Ivan Franko's mother was Ludwika Kulczycka, widow with six children from Yasenytsia Silna.
For example, Franko's uncle Ivan Kulczycki took part in the Polish uprising of 1863.
Ivan Franko attended school in the village Yasenytsia Sylna from 1862 until 1864, and from there attended the Basilian monastic school in Drohobych until 1867.
Ivan Franko's father died before Ivan was able to graduate from the gymnasium, but his stepfather supported Ivan in continuing his education.
Soon Franko found himself completely without parents after his mother died as well and later the young Ivan stayed with totally unrelated people.
In prison, Ivan Franko wrote the satire Smorhonska Akademiya.
Ivan Franko published a series of books called Dribna Biblioteka from 1878 until his second arrest for arousing the peasants to civil disobedience in 1880.
Ivan Franko was an active contributor to the journal Svit in 1881.
Ivan Franko wrote more than half of the material, excluding the unsigned editorials.
Ivan Franko wrote a series of articles on Taras Shevchenko, and reviewed the collection Khutorna Poeziya by Panteleimon Kulish.
Ivan Franko worked for the journal Zorya, and became a member of the editing board of the newspaper Dilo a year later.
Ivan Franko married Olha Khoruzhynska from Kyiv in May 1886, to whom he dedicated the collection Z vershyn i nyzyn, a book of poetry and verse.
The couple lived in Vienna for some time, where Ivano Franko met with Theodor Herzl and Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.
In 1888, Ivan Franko was a contributor to the journal Pravda, which, along with his association with compatriots from Dnieper Ukraine, led to a third arrest in 1889.
Ivan Franko was the Radical party's candidate for seats in the parliament of Austria and the Galicia Diet, but never won an election.
In 1891, Franko attended the Franz-Josephs-Universitat Czernowitz, and then attended the University of Vienna to defend a doctoral dissertation on the spiritual romance Barlaam and Josaphat under the supervision of Vatroslav Jagic, who was considered the foremost expert of Slavic languages at the time.
Ivan Franko received his doctorate of philosophy from University of Vienna on July 1,1893.
Ivan Franko was appointed lecturer in the history of Ukrainian literature at Lviv University in 1894; however, he was not able to chair the Department of Ukrainian literature there because of opposition from Vicegerent Kazimierz Badeni and Galician conservative circles.
Ivan Franko continued his anti-Marxist stance in a collection of poetry entitled Mii smarahd in 1898, where he called Marxism "a religion founded on dogmas of hatred and class struggle".
In 1902, students and activists in Lviv, embarrassed that Ivan Franko was living in poverty, purchased a house for him in the city.
Ivan Franko lived there for the remaining 14 years of his life.
In 1904 Ivan Franko took part in an ethnographic expedition in the Boyko areas with Filaret Kolesa, Fedir Vovk, and a Russian ethnographer.
Ivan Franko was assisted as amanuensis by his sons, particularly Andriy.
Some of Ivan Franko's descendants emigrated to the US and Canada.
Ivan Franko's grand-nephew, Yuri Shymko, is a Canadian politician and human rights activist living in Toronto, who was elected to Canada's Parliament as well as the Ontario Legislature during the 1980s.
Ivan Franko depicted the harsh experience of Ukrainian workers and peasants in his novels Boryslav Laughs and Boa Constrictor.
Ivan Franko has drawn parallels to the Israelite search for a homeland and the Ukrainian desire for independence in In Death of Cain and Moses.
Ivan Franko was widely promoted in Ukraine during the Soviet period, particularly for his poem "Kameniari" which contains revolutionary political ideas, hence earning him the name Kameniar.
An anthology containing short stories and novellas by Ivan Franko entitled Faces of Hardship was published in 2021.
Ivan Franko is associated with the name Kameniar for his famous poem, "Kameniari", especially during the time of the Soviet regime.
Cyril Genik, the best man at Ivan Franko's wedding, emigrated to Canada.
Today, the bust of Ivan Franko, which stands triumphantly on a pillar in the courtyard of the Ivan Franko Manor on McGregor St in Winnipeg, looks fondly across the street.
The second was the Independent Greek Church of which Ivan Franko Bodrug became the head after Seraphim was removed.
Ivan Franko's consciousness had been bold, and on the level playing ground of the new world, it served Ukrainians in Canada to find their own identity as Ukrainian-Canadians.