Fedir Schwez

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Fedir Schwez in 1919

Fedir Petrowytsch Schwez ( Ukrainian Федір Петрович Швець ; born November 11, 1882 in Shabotyn , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † June 20, 1940 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Ukrainian geologist, university professor and politician.

Life

Fedir Schwez was born in the village of Shabotyn ( Жаботин ) near Kamjanka in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Cherkassy .

He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Imperial University of Dorpat in 1909 and was professor of geology at St. Vladimir University in Kiev from 1917 . After the October Revolution he became a member of the Central Na Rada , the Parliament of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and in November 1918 he was established as a member of the Ukrainian Party of Social Revolutionaries ( Українська Партія Соціалістів-Революцістів-Революціонерів) , the highest directorate of the New Ukrainian People's Republic Organ of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In 1919 he was a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference and in November of the same year he emigrated to Prague in Czechoslovakia . From 1923 he was professor of geology at the Ukrainian Free University and from 1924 at the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute Mychajlo Drahomanow . Together with Andrij Makarenko and Opanas Andrijewskyj , he organized the Ukrainian National Rada in 1928/29, which was intended to be the central representative body for Ukrainian emigrants . Schwez died in exile in Prague at the age of 57.

Schwez wrote research on geology.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Fedir Schwez on hrono.ru ; accessed on May 15, 2019 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Fedir Schwez on tsdavo.gov.ua ; accessed on May 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Entry on the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 2, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c Entry on Fedir Schwez on history.vn.ua ; accessed on May 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Schwez, Fedir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwez, Fedir Petrowytsch (full name); Швець, Федір Петрович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian geologist, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Shabotyn , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1940
Place of death Prague , Czechoslovakia