Ivan Krypyakevich

Ivan Krypyakevich before 1913

Ivan Krypjakevyč ( Ukrainian Іван Петрович Крип'якевич ; scientific transliteration Ivan Petrovyč Kryp'jakevyč ; born June 25, 1886 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; † April 21, 1967 in Lviv , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic historian ) was a Ukrainian . As usual with Western Ukrainians, he used his name without a patronymic.

biography

Ivan Krypjakewytsch was born in 1886 as the eldest son of the Greek Catholic priest and specialist in Byzantine hymnology Petro-Franz Krypjakewytsch and his wife in the then capital of the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Lemberg. After finishing school at one of the then four Polish grammar schools, he studied history at the philosophical faculty of the University of Lviv , especially with Mychajlo Hruschewskyj , to whom he immediately assisted with volumes 2 and 3 of his "History of Ukraine". Following his studies, he received his doctorate in history in 1911 with the dissertation "The Cossacks and the privileges of Báthorys". He then worked as a history teacher at the Polish grammar schools in Rohatyn , Wągrowiec , Schowkwa and, above all, at the academic grammar school in Lemberg.

After the young Krypjakewytsch had got to know the Ukrainian language from his father and the Ukrainian history from Mychajlo Hruschewskyj, the formation of the Ukrainian identity became a lifelong educational and professional topic for him.

Stations of his political life were a brief arrest and indictment after participating in student protests on December 23, 1907, in which the Polish-influenced Lviv was about the formation of a Ukrainian university, later in 1914 membership in the Association for the Liberation of Ukraine, in the 1930s in the Ukrainian National Democratic Association and engagement as a member of the Lviv region and finally the proposal - which he rejected - by Yaroslav Stetsko to become Minister of Education of the independent Ukraine proclaimed by the OUN-B in 1941 .

The scientific and educational-popularizing activities of Krypjakewytsch were more formative. In 1905, at the age of 20, he published his first essay in the treatises of the Shevchenko Scientific Society , of which he became a librarian from 1910 to 1912 and a member from 1911. Later from 1924 to 1939 he worked as an editor of her treatises, after he had become secretary of the historical-philosophical commission of the society in 1920. One of his early popular educational activities was his entry into the Proswita in 1908, for which he wrote articles and representations that were easy to understand until the Second World War . The political changes from 1914 onwards led to his work initially in the office of cultural aid for Cholmland and Volhynia - his father came from Volhynia - from 1918 to 1919 to a brief private lectureship in history at the University of Kamianets-Podilskyj , then from 1921 to 1923 to teaching at the Ukrainian (secret) University of Lviv and finally from 1934 to 1939 at the Lviv Theological Academy founded in 1929 . In the late 1920s he took part in conferences and scientific meetings in Prague, Warsaw and Kiev. In particular, his meeting with his teacher Mychajlo Hruschewskyj, now working in Kiev, who helped build the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, may later have made his life easier after the Second World War. In September 1939 Krypjakewytsch became professor at the chair of Ukrainian history in Lviv, in 1940 during the time of the Soviet occupation head of the Lviv section of the Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . In 1941 he was appointed professor without having submitted his own habilitation thesis. The latter two activities ended with the German occupation in 1942 and he worked for the Ukrainian publishing house in Lemberg until the return of Soviet power. In 1944 he was initially able to resume teaching, but in 1946 he was dismissed when the Lviv branch of the Academy of Sciences was closed and transferred to Kiev. Here he worked for two years as a research assistant at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and head of the Department of Old Prints of the Academy's State Public Library. In 1948 he returned to Lviv, where he got a position at the Museum of Ethnology. In 1951 he was finally able to resume teaching at the university, in 1953 he became director of the Institute for Social Sciences of the Lviv branch of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which he headed until 1962 and which the Ukrainians in 1993 after him "Ivan Krypjakewytsch Institute for Ukrainian Studies of the Academy of Sciences ”. Shortly before his retirement, Ivan Krypjakewytsch was named "Honored Scientist of Ukraine". Ivan Krypjakewytsch died at the age of 80 on April 21, 1967 in Lviv and was buried in the Lviv Lychakiv Cemetery. He was with Maria, geb. Sydorowytsch, married and had two sons with her who had become qualified scientists, Petro-Bohdan, a crystal chemist, and Roman, a physicist. In April 2017, the establishment of an Ivan Krypjakewytsch Museum in two rooms of the Lviv Stefanyk Library was announced.

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Krypjakewytsch's work includes numerous publications on archeology, numismatics, geography and cultural history, among others. His first work was on the local socio-economic and cultural history of Lviv and Galicia in the 16th and 17th centuries. Following in the footsteps of Hruschewskyj, on whose history of Ukraine he was involved for this time, and taking up his dissertation topic, he soon broadened his view and researched the beginnings of the formation of the Ukrainian state in central Ukraine at the time of the Cossacks, hetmans and especially the hetman Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj . He shaped his style again and again through generally understandable school and manual representations. His 1954 biography of Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj, which was published in 1954 and was partially politically censored, which was re-published uncensored in 1990 and which was first printed in 1949 under the pseudonym Iwan Kholmskyj in the Ukrainian diaspora of New York and Munich, was a great success 200,000 copies were reprinted. Ivan Krypjakewytsch had a defining influence on his extensive editorial work, to which from 1957 the scientific "Ukraïns'kyj istoryčnyj žurnal '" [Ukrainian historical journal] and his participation in the "Ukraïns'ka radjans'ja encyklopedija" Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia were added his fellow historians and students. So he suggested Iwan Butyč and Petro Tronko in Kiev to the multi-volume, extensive historical-geographical encyclopaedic reference work classified according to oblasts "Istorija mist 'i sil' Ukraïns'koï SSSR" [History of the Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic], for that his records could also be used. Both encyclopedias were initially published in Ukrainian, then improved in Russian, which led to a greater use of the Russian editions. The numerous students of Ivan Krypjakewytsch include Jaroslaw Daschkewytsch , Jaroslaw Isajewytsch and Fedosij Steblij.

Memberships

• Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1958)
• National Shevchenko Society (1911), from 1934 to 1939 head of its historical-philosophical section

Honors

• Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic (1961)

Works

Independent publications (selection)

• [The Cossacks and the privileges of Báthory]. L'viv 1908 (Džerela do istoriï Ukraïny-Rusy; 8).
• [Brief History of Ukraine for Elementary Schools and the First Classes of High School]. L'viv 1918.
• [Brief History of Ukraine]. L'viv 1921; 1924; 1941; 1990. Kyiv 1993.
• [History of Cossack rule for people and youth]. L'viv 1922; 1929;
• [Great History of Ukraine]. L'viv 1935. L'viv-Winnipeg 1948; Kyiv 1993.
• [History of the Ukrainian Armed Forces]. L'viv 1936; Winnipeg 1953; L'viv 1992.
• [History of Ukrainian Culture]. L'viv 1937. Kyiv 1993; 1994.
• (under the pseudonym Ivan Cholms'kyj), [History of Ukraine]. New York-Munich 1949; L'viv 1990 (with a biographical introduction by Jaroslaw Daschkewytsch).
• [Bohdan Khmelnitsky]. Kyïv 1954 (censored); L'viv 1990 (uncensored, with a biographical introduction by Jaroslaw Isajewytsch).
• [The reign of Galicia-Volhynia]. Kyiv 1984; L'viv 1999.

Essay

• (Excerpt) The old Lviv, in: Alois Woldan (ed.), Europa erlesen. Lviv. Klagenfurt 2008, pp. 21–24.

Editing

• together with Ivan Butyč, [Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj's documents, 1648–1657]. Kyiv 1961.

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Estate and Archives

Ivan Kryjakewytsch's estate is in the Lviv branch of the Central Historical State Archives of Ukraine and in the Lviv Stefanyk National Library. It is made accessible through the inventory:

• Archive Ivana Kryp'jakevyča: Inventarnyj opys. Kyiv-L'viv 2005.

Memorial

• Ivan Kryp'jakevyč u rodynij tradyciï, nauci, suspil'stvi. L'viv 2001 (Ukraïna: Kul'turna spadšyna, nacional'na svidomist ', deržavnist', 9).

literature

• O. Ohloblyn, Krypiakevych, Ivan, in: Encyclopedia of Ukraine 2 (1988) 682, online.
• I. Svarnyk, Kryp'jakevyč, Ivan, in: Encyklopedija L'vova 3 (2010) 620-621.
• Yes. Isajevyč, Kryp'jakevyč, Ivan Petrovyč, in: Encyklopedija istoriï Ukraïny 5 (2009) 390-395, online.
• Yes. Isajevyč, Kryp'jakevyč, Ivan Petrovyč, in: Encyklopedija sučasnoï Ukraïny 15 (2014) 482-483, online.
• Ivan Kryp'jakevyč u rodynij tradyciï, nauci, suspil'stvi. L'viv 2001 (Ukraïna: Kul'turna spadšyna, nacional'na svidomist ', deržavnist', 9).
• Ninel 'Klymenko, Ivan Kryp'jakevyč jak osobystist' i naukovec '(za novymy džerelamy) [IK as a personality and scientist according to new sources], in: Ukraïns'kyj istoryčnyj žurnal 6 (507) / 2012, 96-110.

bibliography

• OD Kizlyk, Kryp'jakevyč Ivan Petrovyč: Korotkyj biobibliohrafyčnyj pokažčyk . L'viv 1958.

Web links

Commons : Ivan Krypjakewytsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ivan Krypjakewytsch in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on Krypiakevych, Iwan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 23, 2017 (English)
2. ↑ Entry on Крип'якевич, Іван Петрович ; accessed on April 23, 2017 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Entry on Крип'якевич, Іван Петрович in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on April 23, 2017 (Ukrainian)