Ivan Lypa

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Ivan Lypa about 1919

Ivan Lwowytsch Lypa ( Ukrainian Іван Львович Липа * February 12 jul. / 24. February  1865 greg. In Kerch , Taurida Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 13. November 1923 in Vynnyky in Lviv , Poland ) was a Ukrainian writer, doctor and Politician.

Life

Ivan Lypa had been a student at the medical faculty of the University of Kharkiv since 1888 and, as such, was one of the founders of the Taras Brotherhood , a secret organization in the summer of 1891 , which campaigned for a greater spread of the Ukrainian language and culture and for the political independence of Ukraine. In April 1893 he published their goals in the journal Pravda under a pseudonym . In 1893 he was imprisoned for over a year because of his membership in the Brotherhood. After studying at the University of Kazan , he worked as a doctor first in the Cherson Governorate , then in Poltava and between 1902 and 1918 in Odessa .

He was a member of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Socialist Party and was first Ukrainian commissioner of Odessa during the Ukrainian struggle for independence and then Minister for Religious Affairs of the People's Republic of Ukraine in the governments of Volodymyr Chekhivskyi and Serhiy Ostapenko . After the Ukrainian government resigned in Tarnów, Poland , he headed the Council of the Republic in 1921 and became Minister of Health in the government-in-exile of the People's Republic of Ukraine. In 1922 he moved to Wynnyky near Lemberg, where he died in 1923. As a writer, he became famous for his symbolic and philosophical poetry and short stories, and also wrote stories for children.

Ivan Lypa was the father of the Ukrainian writer, journalist, doctor and prominent figure of Ukrainian nationalism Jurij Lypa ( Юрій Іванович Липа 1900–1944).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Brotherhood of Taras in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 22, 2017 (English)
  2. ^ Entry on Lypa, Ivan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 22, 2017 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lypa, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lypa, Ivan Lwowytsch (full name); Липа, Іван Львович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerch , Taurian Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1923
Place of death Wynnyky near Lviv , Poland