Lonhyn Zehelskyj

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From left to right: Ivan Boberskyj , Mychajlo Woloschyn and Lonhyn Zehelskyj 1918

Lonhyn Mychajlowytsch Zehelskyj ( Ukrainian Лонгин Михайлович Цегельський , Russian Лонгин Михайлович Цегельский Longin Mikhailovich Zjegelski * 29. August 1875 in Kamionka Strumiłowa , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary ; † 13. December 1950 in Philadelphia , United States ) was a Ukrainian politician , Lawyer, journalist, diplomat and publisher.

Life

Lonhyn Zehelskyj was born in Kamionka Strumiłowa, today's Kamjanka-Buska in the Ukrainian Oblast of Lviv . He graduated from the First State Academic Gymnasium in Lviv and from 1894 attended the Law Faculty of the University of Lviv . From 1898 onwards he worked in legal and administrative practice at the Foreign Ministry in Vienna and was then sent to the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in Sweden. After returning to Lviv, he defended his dissertation on international law.

On October 18, 1918 he became a member of the Ukrainian National Council of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic and on November 9, 1918 Minister of the Interior in the newly formed government. From January 4, 1919 until March 10, 1919 he headed the Secretariat for Foreign Policy of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic. After the failure of the new state, he emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a journalist. He was the author of the memoir “From legend to truth” and in 1937 published a monograph entitled “ Metropolitan Andrej Scheptyzkyj ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Lonhyn Zehelskyj at the Ukrainian Institute for National Remembrance ; accessed on December 30, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ entry to Lonhyn Zehelskyj in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on December 30, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Lonhyn Zehelskyj in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 30, 2017 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Zehelskyj, Lonhyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zehelskyj, Lonhyn Mychajlowytsch (full name); Цегельський, Лонгин Михайлович (Ukrainian); Цеге́льский, Лонги́н Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician, lawyer, journalist, diplomat and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamjanka-Buska , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1950
Place of death Philadelphia , United States