Milena Rudnyzka
Milena Iwaniwna Rudnyzka ( Ukrainian Мілена Іванівна Рудницька ; born July 15, 1892 in Sboriw , Crown Land , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary ; † March 29, 1976 in Munich , Germany ) was a Ukrainian political activist, educator, journalist and writer MP and feminist .
Life
Milena Rudnyzka was born as the daughter of a notary in Sboriw in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Ternopil . When she was ten years old, her father died and the family moved to Lviv, where she graduated from the Polish private high school. She graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Lviv in 1910 and attended the University of Vienna between 1910 and 1917 , where she did her doctorate in philosophy. From 1921 to 1928 she taught at the Higher Pedagogical School in Lemberg, but later gave up this work to devote herself exclusively to public and political work. In the interwar period she became one of the leading activists of the West Ukrainian women's movement.
From 1924 to 1928 she was a member of the board of the Organization of Women with Higher Education in Lviv and from 1928 to 1939 she was chairman of the Central Board of the Union of Ukrainian Women ( Союз українок ). In 1934 she was one of the organizers of the First Ukrainian Women's Congress in Stanisławów and from 1935 to 1939 she edited the bi-weekly magazine Frau . Between 1937 and 1939 she was the President of the World Association of Ukrainian Women. She also represented the Ukrainian women's movement at the congresses of the International Women's Federation of Peace and Freedom (1921 in Vienna; 1926 in Dublin and 1929 in Prague) and in 1939 at the International Women's Union in Berlin and 1933 in Marseille.
She was, like her husband Pavlo Lyssjak , one of the founders of the Ukrainian National Democratic Union (UNDO) , (Ukrainian УКРАЇНСЬКЕ НАЦІОНАЛЬНО-ДЕМОКРАТИЧНЕ ОБ'ЄДНАННЯ (УН .О) ) and the largest political party in Poland, from 19 to 19 in the Ukrainian and Ukraine she was a member of the party's central committee. As such, she was a member of the Polish Sejm during the second and third legislative periods from 1928 to 1935 . In her function as a member of the Ukrainian parliamentary representation, she submitted petitions to the League of Nations , especially for the Polish pacification of western Ukraine and the Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR .
She has lived in exile since the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland . Initially in Krakow (1939–1940), then from 1940 to 1943 in Berlin , then until 1945 in Prague , then until 1946 in Feldkirch, Austria, and until 1950 in Geneva . From Geneva she went to New York until 1958 , then stayed in Rome until 1959 and finally went to Munich, where she stayed until the end of her life.
Rudnyzka wrote more than 60 publications and polemical articles on educational, cultural and feminist topics, including the books Українська дійсність і завдання жінки Ukrajinska dijsnist i. 19dannja schinky , in German: The Ukrainian Reality , 1934, Lvai Зняня of the Ukrainian Reality, and the Lives of Ukraine під большевиками Sachidnja Ukrajina pid bolschewykamy to German: Western Ukraine under the Bolsheviks , collection, New York 1958, Дон Боско: Людина, педагог, святий Don Bosko: Ljudyna, pedahoh, swjatyj to German Don Bosco : man, educator and saint , Rome 1963 and Невидимі стигмати Newydymi styhmaty , in German The invisible stigmata , Rome-Munich-Philadelphia 1971.
She died at the age of 83 in Munich and was initially buried there. On September 20, 1997, she was reburied in the family grave in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
family
Milena Rudnyzka was the sister of the historian, politician and journalist Ivan Kedryn ( Іван Кедрин 1896-1995), the composer and pianist Antin Rudnyzkyj ( Антін Іванович Рудницький 1902-1975) as well as the literary critic, writer, poet and translator Mychajlo Rudnyzkyj ( Михайло Іванович Рудницький 1889–1975). She was the wife of the Ukrainian political activist, lawyer and journalist Pavlo Lyssjak ( Павло Лисяк 1887–1948) and mother of the historian, political scientist and publicist Ivan Lyssjak-Rudnyzkyj ( Іван Лисяк-Рудницький ). 1919–1984.
literature
- Marta Bohatschewska-Chomjak White on White: Women in Public Life in Ukraine: 1884–1939 ; Kiev, 1995
- Milena Rudnyzka: articles, letters, documents ; Lviv, 1998
- Djadjuk M. Ukrainian women's movement in interwar Galicia: Between gender identity and national commitment ; Lviv, 2011
Web links
- The champion of women's equality - Article on Milena Rudnyzka in day.kyiv of March 7, 2001 (Ukrainian)
- Rudnyzka in the Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Milena Rudnyzka's life on upu.plast.org.ua ; accessed on April 16, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Entry on Milena Rudnyzka in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 16, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Entry on Milena Rudnyzka in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 16, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rudnyzka, Milena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rudnyzka, Milena Iwaniwna (full name); Рудницька, Мілена Іванівна (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian political activist, educator, journalist and writer, Polish MP and feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sboriw , Crown Land , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1976 |
| Place of death | Munich , Germany |