Mykola Bilyashivskyi

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Mykola Biljaschiwskyj 1899
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Mykola Fedotowytsch Biljaschiwskyj ( Ukrainian Микола Федотович Біляшівський , Russian Николай Федотович Беляшевский Nikolai Fedotowitsch Beljaschewski ; born October 12, jul. / 24. October  1867 greg. In Uman , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 26. April 1926 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian archaeologist , anthropologist , ethnographer and art historian .

Life

Mykola Biljaschiwskyj was born in Uman to a priest. He graduated from the Law Faculties of St. Vladimir University of Kiev (1890) and Novorossiysk University in Odessa (1891), and from 1892 to 1893 studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Moscow University . After graduation, he worked in archives in Moscow and Warsaw, where he discovered a lot of new material on the history of Ukraine. Biljaschiwskyj researched among other things archaeological monuments of different epochs on the territory of Ukraine as well as the history of the Zaporozhian Cossacks . He also devoted himself to studying numismatics and museum affairs. From 1902 to 1924 he was the director of the Kiev Art and Industry and Science Museum . Biljaschiwskyj was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences .

In 1906 he became a member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire as a member of the Kiev Governorate, and later he was a member of the Central Na Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic .

Blyashivskyi died in Kiev at the age of 58 and was buried in Kaniw , not far from the grave of Taras Shevchenko .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Entry on Mykola Biljaschiwskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on February 16, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. Short Biography Mykola Biljaschiwskyj on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ; accessed on February 16, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. entry to Mykola Biljaschiwskyj in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 16, 2018