Nevrlý, Mikuláš

Nevrlý, Mikuláš (Неврлі, Микола; Nevrli, Mykola), b 15 November 1916 in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia, d 18 August 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Ukrainian literature specialist and literary critic in postwar Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. From the early 1920s he lived in Poltava, where his father taught at the Institute of People's Education. He emigrated to Czechoslovakia with his parents in 1933 and taught in a village school in Transcarpathia (1936–9). He graduated from the teachers' seminary in Uzhhorod (1939), and subsequently studied in Prague at Charles University and the Ukrainian Free University (1940–5) and received two doctorates (1945 [Prague]; 1949 [Brno University]). Nevrlý wrote over 575 works, mostly in Czech and Ukrainian: books on Ivan Franko (1952), Taras Shevchenko (1954, 1960), and the history of Czechoslovak-Ukrainian literary relations (coeditor, 1957); a bibliography of Ukrainian studies in Slovakia in the years 1945–64 (1965); hundreds of articles published in Eastern European and Soviet Ukrainian periodicals and encyclopedias; and introductions to Czech translations of novels by Franko (1951), Panas Myrny (1953), and Vadym Sobko (1953). He also edited a Czech anthology of Ukrainian poetry (1951, with Orest Zilynsky), Prešov editions of the poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1966) and Dmytro Falkivsky (1969), the Slovak edition of Shevchenko’s works (2 vols, 1959, 1962, with Mykhailo Molnar), and P. Bunhanych’s Slovak-Ukrainian dictionary (1986). His doctoral dissertation (1945) on Oleksander Oles’s poetry and his candidate's dissertation (1966) on Soviet Ukrainian poetry of the 1920s have not been published.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]