Education
He graduated from the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary at University of Lviv in 1838 and worked as a priest in the rural Lwow powiat.
He graduated from the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary at University of Lviv in 1838 and worked as a priest in the rural Lwow powiat.
In 1832, they organized a group of students aimed at the rise of the Ukrainian dialect free of Church Slavonic and alien "styles" up to the literary language. During his studies he met Yakiv Holovatsky and Ivan Vahylevych, with whom he formed the Ruthenian Triad (aka Ruska Triytsia). He also organized nationally conscious Ukrainian young people to work for national and cultural revival in Western Ukrainian lands, particularly to reintroduce the use of spoken Ukrainian language in writing and sermons.
The activities of the Shashkevych circle constituted not only a literary phenomenon, but a social and democratic movement.
The almanac had a decisive effect on the revival and development of Ukrainian literature in Galicia. After a short life, he was first buried at a Nowosiółki cemetery (The Bieszczady Mountains) in 1843, and then in 1891 his mortal remains were transferred to the Lychakivskiy Cemetery in Lviv.