Mato Kósyk

Mato Kosyk ( born June 18, 1853 in Advertising / Wjerbno, † November 22, 1940 in Albion, Oklahoma ) was a Lower Sorbian poet.

Life

Kosyk came from a farming family and was able to visit the school after completing elementary school. But this he left in 1873 without school and took a job with the railroad in Leipzig. During this time he began to write his first poems. In 1877 he returned to Advertise and was there for several years as a freelance writer, nowiny in 1880 as editor of the Lower Sorbian newspaper Bramborske. Since he does not live on the income from his literary activity and not, as he actually intended, theology was able to study because of the lack baccalaureate, he decided in 1883 to emigrate to the USA. He studied first in Springfield and then in Chicago Protestant theology, was ordained in 1885 and received his first pastorate in Wellsburg, Iowa. The following year he returned to the Lausitz and tried in vain to find in Germany a pastorate. Since the Church did not recognize his American education, he settled permanently in 1887 in the United States down.

Kosyk then worked until 1913 at various German-speaking pastors. In 1890 he married Anna Wehr from Hochberg, 1891 his only son George ( Juro ) was born, who died in 1915. From 1892 he was again in correspondence with writers of his home, which lasted until 1898, and also began to write again. In 1913 he bought a farm in Albion (Oklahoma), on which he lived until his death, in 1923, again in a lively exchange with his fellow writers in Lusatia. After the death of his wife in 1929 Kosyk first lived alone and married in 1938 Wilma filters that had been his housekeeper since 1935. Wilma Kosyk returned to Germany after his death, the estate is lost.

Mato Kosyks poems were, inter alia, 1929 moved to Germany, printed in Serbski Casnik, edited by Bogumil Šwjela and illustrated by Fritz Lattke.

Cełkowny wudawk, of the eight volumes by 2012 with nearly 4000 printed pages have appeared since 2000, edited by Janas pets and Roland Marti complete edition Spise appears.

In honor Kosyks elementary school was named after him in Briesen. Advertise In a memorial stone at him.