Borys Levytzkyj
Borys Rostyslaw Lewytzkyj (born May 19, 1915 in Vienna , † November 1984 in Munich ) was a German publicist and political activist.
Life
Borys Levytzkyj was the son of a Ukrainian high school professor. He attended the humanistic high school in Brzezany , Galicia . After studying at the University of Lviv and graduating as Dr. phil. he worked as a journalist until 1939.
After the Second World War he worked as a research assistant for the "Eastern Europe" research service in Düsseldorf and at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn. From 1967 Levytzkyj was a freelance journalist and head of a private institute in Munich, which dealt with the internal problems of the Soviet Union , especially with Moscow's nationality policy. He was an employee of numerous western trade magazines. He also taught as a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Political and Economic Sciences at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich .
literature
- Hermann Bubke: The deployment of the Stasi and KGB spy Otto Freitag in Munich in the post-war period . Publishing house Dr. Kovač 2004
- Borys Lewytzkyj in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Borys Lewytzkyj in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Borys Lewytzkyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on June 16, 2020 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewytzkyj, Borys |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lewytzkyj, Borys Rostyslaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Sovietologist and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1984 |
| Place of death | Munich |