Oleh Turij

Oleh Jurijowytsch Turij ( Ukrainian Олег Юрійович Турій ; scientific transliteration Oleh Jurijovyč Turij ; born July 21, 1964 in Tswitowa ) is a Ukrainian church historian . Like most Western Ukrainians, he uses the non-patronymic spelling for his publications.

biography

Born in 1964 in the village of Tswitowa in Kalush Rajon , Oleh Turij studied after graduating from school from 1981 to 1986 at the historical faculty of the Ivan Franko University in Lviv and received his doctorate there in December 1994 with a thesis on The Greek Catholic Church in Sociopolitical Affairs Life in Galicia from 1848–1867 . During his doctoral thesis, he initially taught history for three years at the Technikum in Kalusch , then worked for a year at the Iwan Franko Literature Museum in Lviv and was then a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the Iwan Franko University until 1998 . From 1994 to 2002, under Borys Gudziak, he was the deputy director of the Institute for Church History, the founding cell of the re-established Lviv Theological Academy and the later founded Ukrainian Catholic University . From 2002 to 2008 he was director of the Institute for Church History of the newly opened Ukrainian Catholic University, since then, in addition to his teaching activities, he has been the prorector of this university for questions of academic work and now corrects external relations. As a result of his position and language skills, Turij was and is the first Ukrainian speaker of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the field of scientific research into church history and in ecumenical encounters with Ukrainians in the German-speaking area. He is now followed by younger Greek Catholic and Orthodox scholars such as Andriy Mykhalejko, Serhij Bortnyk, Cyril Hovorun and others.

Oleh Turij has two grown sons with his wife Switlana.

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Turij's academic work revolves, on the one hand, on socio-political phenomena in Galicia in the second half of the 19th century ; he is particularly interested in the revolution of 1848/49. The second subject area is through the teaching activity and the international church contacts the church history of Ukraine and the current coexistence of the churches in Ukraine up to their impact on current socio-political processes. His management function brought among other things the editor function for the conference volumes of the "Brest Lectures" organized by the Institute for Church History and for the magazine "Arche" (ukr. Kovčeh), which was also started here, as well as other editing and translation activities. Research projects have taken him to Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy and the USA, among others. He worked as a visiting professor at the universities of Lublin, Innsbruck and Mainz.

Publications (selection)

Independent publications

• Греко-Католицька Церква в суспільно-політичному житті Галичини, 1848-1867. Diss. L'viv 1994 (unpublished, publication only in parts in individual articles. The topic was also intensively researched in English by John-Paul Himka)
• Cerkva mučenikiv (Church of the Martyrs). L'viv 2002; 2005, English 2004, French 2012.
• Religious life and interdenominational relationships in independent Ukraine. Institute for Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv (Lemberg) 2007 (Ukraïna chrystyjans'ka; 12).

Essays

Only the most important German-language articles are listed below.

• The Greek Catholic Church and the Emergence of the Ukrainian National Movement in Galicia, in: Ostkirchliche Studien 47 (1998) 3-21.
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Media, in: Informationes Theologiae Europae. International Ecumenical Theology Yearbook 1999, 299-320.
• The Catholic Churches and Ecumenical Relations in Ukraine, in: East-West. European Perspectives 2 (2001) 95-106.
• (together with Michael Ulrich) Order, in: Church on the move: for pastoral development in Eastern (Central) Europe; a qualitative study. Edited by András Máté-Tóth and Pavel Mikluščak et al., Ostfildern 2001, 173-189.
• Identity problems of the traditional Christian churches in independent Ukraine, in: Repères œcuméniques - Ecumenical waymarks. Publiés par l'Institut d'études œcumeniques de l'Université de Friborg: Ukraine - starting point for Christianization of Rus' - starting point for Christian reconciliation today? Lectures on the ecumenical situation in Ukraine as part of the study days «Ukraine - Challenges of a Country in Transformation» 19./20. April 2002 at the University of Friborg, 12 (September 2002), 19-38.
• Religious Life and Interdenominational Relations, in: Ukraine in Europe. Current situation, background and perspectives. Red. J. Besters-Dilger, I. Oswald. Vienna - Cologne - Weimar 2003, 365-415 (series of books by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe 9).
• The Union of Brest 1595/96, in: ContaCOr 5 (2) (2003) 205-231.
• The Union of Brest 1595/96. Origin and historical background, in: International Research Discussion of the PRO ORIENTE Foundation on the Union of Brest. First meeting: 18.-24. July 2002. Edited by Johann Marte. Würzburg 2004, 39-70.
• How religion came into play. The churches and the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine, in: Herder Korrespondenz 59 (2005) 261-266.
• The "Ruthenian Faith" and the "Faithful Ruthenians": The Habsburg Policy Regarding the Greek Catholic Church, in: Border Regions of the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Their meaning and functions from the perspective of Vienna. Edited by Hans-Christian Maner. Münster 2005, 123-132 (Mainzer Contributions to the History of Eastern Europe 1).
• State and religion in Ukraine. An opportunity for the church and state in the border area of ​​the European Union, in: Ostkirchliche Studien 54 (2005) 106-114.
• A border crossing? On the relations between Greek and Roman Catholics in Ukraine, in: Boundaries: Social Constitutions and Transfigurations. Edited by Hans Hecker. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006, 115-127 (European publications of the Adalbert Foundation-Krefeld; 1).
• The Greek Catholic Church and the Ukrainian National Identity in Galicia in the 19th Century, in: Confessional Identity and Nation Building. The Greek Catholic Churches in East Central and Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Edited by Hans-Christian Maner, Norbert Spannenberger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007, 41-49 (research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe; 25).
• Authority of Tradition and Traditional Authorities: The Synodal System of the Kyiv Church in the Preparation and Conclusion of the Union of Brest, in: Authority and Synodality. Frankfurt am Main 2008, 253-271.
• Religious Life and Interdenominational Relationships in Ukraine: Past and Present, in: Ostkirchliche Studien 57 (2008) 128-149.
• Ecclesial and national identity of the Greek Catholic Churches of Eastern and Central Europe: Coherence and Discrepancy, in: The Mission of the Eastern Catholic Churches in the Framework of the Universal Church and for the Modern World. Edited by Yuriy Kolasa. - L'viv: Svichado, 2013, 243-255.
• Introduction: Religious Pluralism, the Political and the Ukraine, in: Religious Plurality as a Factor of the Political in Ukraine. Edited by Katrin Boeckh and Oleh Turij. Regensburg 2015, 1-12.
• Historical roots of interdenominational conflicts in the present day Ukraine: Identification problems of the Christian churches, in: Religious plurality as a factor of the political in Ukraine. Edited by Katrin Boeckh and Oleh Turij. Regensburg 2015, 115-138.

Editorships

• Holovna Rus'ka Rada, 1848-1851: protokoly zasidan 'i knyha korespondenciï. L'viv 2002.
• Міклош Томка й Олег Турій (ред). Віра після атеїзму: релігійне життя в Україні в період демократичних перетворень інео державноле. Львів: Вид-во УКУ 2004.
• Johann Marte, Oleh Turij (eds.). The Union of Brest (1596) in history and historiography: Attempt to take stock. Materials from the International Research Discussion of the PRO ORIENTE Foundation on the Brest Union (Third Meeting: Lviv, August 21-23, 2006) and the International Scientific Symposium of the Institute for Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University «The Brest Union: Perspectives of Scientific Consensus in Context of national and confessional discourse »(Lviv, August 24-27, 2006). L'viv 2008.
• Johann Marte with Archbishop Jeremiasz (Anchimiuk), Oleh Turij and Ernst Christoph Suttner (eds.). The Brest Union. Research results of an interdenominational and international working group of the Vienna Pro Oriente Foundation. Part I: Prehistory and events of the years 1595/96. Wurzburg 2009.

literature

• Turij, Oleh. In: Chto je chto v Ukraïni 2007, p. 989.

Web links

• Biography and Bibliography (until 2015)