Myroslaw Marynovych
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Myroslav Frankovych Marynowytsch (Ukr. Мирослав Франкович Маринович * 4. January 1949 in Komarowice ( Lviv Oblast )) is a Ukrainian journalist, translator, teacher, vice rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv , co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and the Ukrainian Amnesty International , former chairman of the Ukrainian PEN Club and holder of the Order of Freedom of Ukraine .
biography
He comes from a devout Ukrainian family, his grandfather was a clergyman in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church . He attended secondary school in Drohobych and the local music school.
He studied electrical engineering from 1967 to 1972 at the Lviv Polytechnic , but was harassed for making critical statements about the Soviet situation.
After graduating, Marynowytsch was employed as a translator of English texts in the "Positron" works in Ivano-Frankivsk . There he met anti-communist dissidents from Lviv and Kiev .
He was arrested for the first time on May 22, 1973 when he was laying flowers at the Taras Shevchenko monument in Kiev . 1973–1974 he was called to military service in Vologda . In 1974 Marynowytsch came to Kiev, where he was employed as a technical editor in the magazine publisher. However, at the request of the security service, she was soon released and was unemployed for a while.
On November 9, 1976 he founded together with Mykola Matussewytsch , Mykola Rudenko , Pjotr Grigorenko a . a. the Ukrainian branch of the Helsinki Group of Human Rights Defenders. Since then, he has been constantly monitored and threatened by the security service.
On April 23, 1977 he was sentenced to 7 years of forced labor in Russia and 5 years of exile in Kazakhstan . From 1987 to 1990 he worked in the oil refinery in Drohobych .
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, he became a research associate at the Eastern European Institute in Kiev. Cofounded the Ukrainian Amnesty International in 1991 .
Between 1991 and 1996 he gave lectures on the history of Christianity at the Drohobych Pedagogical Institute and the Drohobych Administrative Institute.
In 1996 he received a scholarship to study at Columbia University in New York , then in 1999 a scholarship from the Institute for Eastern Research at the Catholic Radboud University in Nijmegen . In 1997 he founded the Institute for Religion and Society at the Theological Academy in Lviv, which was later transformed into the Catholic Academy. Since 2007 he has held the post of Vice Rector of this university. Since 2004 he has been a member of the editorial committee of the Lviv magazine "Ji" . Since December 31, 2008 he has been the holder of the Order of Freedom and from September 2010 to September 2016 he was chairman of the Ukrainian PEN Club.
Works (selection)
- М. Маринович. Права людини. (Human rights) Київ: Демос-центр 1993, 44 с.
- Myroslaw Marynowytch. Ecumenical processes in Ukraine (special edition. Institute for Religion and Society at the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Theological Academy. Lviv / Ukraine) 1999, 59 с.
- Myroslav Marynovych. An Ecumenist Analyzes the History and Prospects of Religion in Ukraine. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press 2004, 89 с.
- M. Marynowytsch, The Ukrainian Idea and Christianity, or the Romping Around of the Colorful Horses of the Apocalypse. From the Ukr. by Günter Korzak. Jena 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Order number 1224/2008 of the President of Ukraine of December 31, 2008 , accessed on September 8, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marynovych, Myroslaw |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marynovych, Myroslaw Frankovych |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian human rights activist, dissident, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Komarowice |