Mychajlo Harassevych

Mychajlo Harassevych

Mykhaylo Harassewytsch ( Ukrainian Михайло Гарасевич де Нойштерн ;. Scientific transliteration Mychajlo Harasevyč * 23. May 1763 in Jaktorów, Circle Zołczow, Kingdom of Poland ; † 29. April 1836 in Lviv , Empire of Austria ) was a Ukrainian theologian , historian and publicist . In the literature, the Latin or Polish spelling Harasiewicz is used.

biography

Mychajlo Harassewytsch Baron von Neustern was born on May 23, 1763 in the village of Jaktorów, Zołczow district, today Schowkwa , in what was then the Kingdom of Poland . After he had finished the Piarist Convict in Zołczow, he began studying in 1782 at the Barbareum, the theological training center for Greek-Catholic Ukrainians in Vienna , which was only founded in 1774 . From 1784 to 1787 he studied at the newly built Greek Catholic Seminary and the also in 1784 at the University of Lviv furnished study Ruthenum in Lviv . He then began to teach here, from 1790 in the function of a professor, having received his doctorate in theology in 1789. His teaching activities focused on the exegesis of the texts of the Old and New Testaments and the Greek language. At the same time, Harassewytsch, like many Galician theologians at the time, was active as a journalist: he edited the German-language Lemberger newspaper for several years and was one of the editors of the Polish newspaper Dziennik Patriotycznych Polityków until 1797 . In 1793 he married Teresa Jabłońska.

More promising than teaching and research, however, was his further theological career: in 1795 Harassewytsch was ordained a priest, in 1797 became Canonicus honoris causae of the Pschemyschl Eparchy and from 1800 Vicar General of the Lviv Metropolis, from 1813 with the rank of archpriest. After the death of the first Metropolitan Archbishop Antonij Anhelowytsch, the end of his career was the management of the Galician Greek Catholic Metropolis from 1814 to 1818. The younger Metropolitan Mihail Lewicki , who subsequently worked for four decades from 1816 , soon looked for new employees.

Harassewytsch increasingly turned away from the polonophilia he had at first and finally became one of the delegates of the Greek Catholic Church in 1807 at the meeting with Emperor Franz I of Austria , in which the establishment of the Galician metropolis was concerned. During the Austro-Polish War of 1809 - the Vistula Campaign - he was briefly restricted in his freedoms by the Polish rulers, the Austrians awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order in the same year and he received the title of nobility from Neustern .

After Metropolitan Michail Lewicki had taken over the management of the metropolis, Harassewytsch devoted himself to the church history of Galicia with long excursions into the national history. This was only compiled from the notes in 1862 in the last year of the mosquito metropolitan Hryhorij Jachimowytsch's life and in memory of the author's 100th birthday by the canonicus Michael Ritter von Malinowski, supplemented by continuations up to the present day and by numerous appendices, with over 1200 pages published in Latin. It was popular among the Ukrainian students who at the time mastered Latin and in the following years contributed to the nation-building of Ukrainians.

At the age of 69, the most educated Galician Ukrainian at the time died on April 29, 1836 in Lemberg.

Independent publications

• Annales ecclesiae Ruthenae, gratiam et communionem cum s. Sede Romana habentis, ritumque Graeco-Slavicum observantis, cum singulari respectu . Leopoli 1862. Reprints Lemberg approx. 1930; Munich 1971, readable as a digitized version via the Bavarian State Library in Munich, [1] and [2] .

literature

• Marian Banaszak, Art. H., in: Slownik polskich teológow katolickich = Lexicon Theologorum Catholicorum Poloniae 2 (1982) 26-27.
• Janusz Bazydllo, Art. H., in: Encyklopedia Katolicka 6 (1993) 546-547.
• Feodosij Steblij, Art. H., in: Encyklopedija L'vova 1 (2007) 496–497.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Von Malinowski himself wrote a hardly less extensive presentation, The Church and State Statutes regarding the Greek-Catholic Rite of the Ruthenians in Galicia , Lemberg 1861 [1863]. See overall John-Paul Himka, Religion and Nationality: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867–1900. Montreal et al. a., 1999.