Natalija Polonska-Wassylenko
Natalija Dmytriwna Polonska-Wassylenko ( Ukrainian Наталія Дмитрівна Полонська-Василенко ; born January 31 . Jul / 12. February 1884 greg. In Kharkiv , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire , † 8. June 1973 in Dornstadt in Ulm , West Germany ) was a Ukrainian historian.
Life
Natalija Polonska-Wassylenko was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in Kharkov. She attended the Kiev Girls' School and studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Vladimir University in Kiev . From 1912 she was assistant professor of history at the University for Women and then at the University of Kiev. After the First World War , she was a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Kiev as well as an employee of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . From 1941 she was director of the Institute of Archeology in Kiev, which was occupied by the Wehrmacht .
In 1943 she first moved to Lviv and in 1944 she emigrated to Prague , where she was a professor at the Ukrainian Free University, initially in Prague and from 1945 to 1973 in Munich . She was also a member of the Ukrainian Historical and Philological Society, since 1947 of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and since 1953 of the International Academy of Sciences in Paris .
Polonska-Wassylenko was the author of numerous studies on Ukrainian history and archeology and on Ukrainian personalities and scientists. She was the wife of the President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and politician Mykola Vasylenko .
Works (selection)
- History of Ukraine, Ukrainian Free University of Munich , 1988
- Two conceptions of the history of Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian Free University of Munich , 1970
Source:
Web links
- Biography Natalija Polonska-Wassylenko on the website of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev (Ukrainian)
- Biography Natalija Polonska-Vasylenko on the website of the Institute for the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- Memoirs Natalija Polonska-Wassylenko , 2011 ISBN 978-966-518-573-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography Natalija Polonska-Wassylenko on ukrainians-world ; accessed on February 25, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Biography Natalija Polonska-Wassylenko on the website of the Scientific Library of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ; accessed on February 25, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ entry to Polonska-Vasylenko, Nataliia in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 25, 2017 (English)
- ↑ DNB 121111792
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polonska-Wassylenko, Natalija |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Polonska-Wassylenko, Natalija Dmytrivna (full name); Полонська-Василенко, Наталія Дмитрівна (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkiv , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1973 |
| Place of death | Dornstadt , Federal Republic of Germany |