Fedir Wowk

Fedir Wowk

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Федір Кіндратович Вовк
Transl. :	Fedir Kindratovyč Vovk
Transcr. :	Fedir Kindratowytsch Wowk
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Фёдор Кондратьевич Волков
Transl .:	Fëdor Kondrat'evič Volkov
Transcr .:	Fyodor Kondratjewitsch Volkov

Fedir Vovk Kindratowytsch, often Fedir Vovk, (born March 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th March  1847 ^greg. In Krjatschkiwka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 29. June 1918 in Zhlobin , Belarus ) was a Ukrainian ethnographer , anthropologist and archaeologist .

Life

Fedir Wowk was born in the village of Krjachkivka ( Крячківка ) near Pyriatyn in the northwest of what is now the Ukrainian Poltava Oblast . His mother introduced him to stories, songs and Ukrainian folk customs early on, which later became the subject of his research. In order to give the children a good education, the family moved to Nischyn in the Chernigov Governorate , where Wowk attended high school. Wowk first studied at the University of Odessa , moved to Kiev in 1866 and studied there until 1871 at the Taras Shevchenko University . In Kiev he was active in the Hromada , a secret society for the national revival of Ukraine, from 1872 and in 1873 was one of the founders of the Southwestern branch of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society , which was headed between 1873 and 1876 by Pavlo Chubynskyi , whom he knew . In 1874/75 he took part in archaeological expeditions led by Volodymyr Antonowytsch ( Володимир Боніфатійович Антонович 1834–1908) in the Kiev and Volyn Governorates .

He spent the years 1876 to 1878 in Geneva . As a prominent member of the Hromada , he had to flee from tsarist persecution to Romania in 1879, where he led an intensive academic life and actively participated in social and political life. From 1887 he studied anthropology, comparative ethnography and archeology at the University of Paris and received his doctorate in 1905 at the University of Paris. By then, he had already received several scientific awards, including from Russia, for his research.

In December 1905 he returned to the Russian Empire and settled in Saint Petersburg , where, apart from research trips, he lived until his death. In Saint Petersburg he was curator of the Russian Museum from 1905 to 1917 and was appointed private lecturer at the University of Petersburg from 1907 and from 1917 that of professor. From 1907 he was a member of the Ukrainian Scientific Society in Kiev, as well as of many other scientific institutions in other European countries. In 1908, Wowk was one of the first explorers to discover Paleolithic remains in the Ukraine in the village of Mesyn , about which he presented a sensational report at the XIV Archaeological Congress. On November 19, 1916 he was awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French government . On October 29, 1917 he was appointed professor at Kiev University, but died of pneumonia on the way to Ukraine in the Belarusian town of Shlobin on the Dnieper at the age of 72.

In his work on archeology, anthropology and ethnography, Wowk tried to prove that the Ukrainians are a separate people with unique ethnographic characteristics, which are differentiated from other Slavic peoples by their own anthropological type.

Web links

Commons : Fedir Wowk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography Fedir Wowk on itopys.com.ua (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography of Fedir Vovk on the website of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, accessed on April 29, 2016.
2. ^ Entry on Fedir Wowk in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine , accessed on April 29, 2016 (English).
3. ↑ Government portal : personalities in science and technology, accessed on April 29, 2016 (Ukrainian).