Oleksandr Kultschyzkyj

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Oleksandr Julianowytsch Kultschyzkyj ( Ukrainian Олександр Юліанович Кульчицький * 8. February 1895 in Skalat , Galicia , Austria-Hungary , † the 30th April 1980 in Sarcelles , France ) was a Ukrainian psychologist , sociologist and philosopher as well as a social and political personality.

Life

Oleksandr Kultschyzkyj was born in the town of Skalat in what was then the Austrian crown land Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Ternopil . After completing the classical grammar school in Stanislaw in 1913, he studied German and philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Lviv between 1913 and 1914 and from 1924 to 1926 and philosophy, psychology and Romance studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1919/1920 . During World War I he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and in October 1918 he was elected as a student delegate to the Ukrainian National Council of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic . In 1919/20 he was on the diplomatic mission of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic in Paris at the peace conference.

After returning to Lviv University in 1924, he received a master’s degree in education and psychology there in 1926. From 1925 he worked as a teacher in Zolochiv , Kolomyja and Lviv . From 1924 he also worked as a journalist and became Polish tennis champion. In Lviv he defended his doctoral thesis in 1930. From 1930 to 1932 he studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow on the basis of a two-year scholarship from the Ministry of Education . In 1940 he emigrated to Germany. There he taught from 1945 to 1958 at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich . In 1962 he and some colleagues at the Free University founded an association to promote Ukrainian studies, which contributed to considerably improved conditions for the university. In 1963 he was rector of the university, vice-rector from 1968 to 1972 and dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the Ukrainian Free University from 1973 to 1979. From 1951 he was also active in France. For many years he was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society , deputy chairman of the Society in Europe and head of the Society's Western European Center in Sarsel, near Paris, where he died in 1980 at the age of 85.

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Kultschyzkyj's ideological, theoretical and methodological foundations were influenced by the ideas of Max Scheler , Henri Bergson and Emmanuel Mounier . His philosophy was based mainly on the views of Immanuel Kant and Gregorius Skoworoda . Kultschyzkyj wrote almost 400 articles and monographs from the fields of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, character studies, ethnography, pedagogy, German studies and literary studies, which were published in Ukrainian, English, German and French.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophical Thinking in Ukraine: A Bibliographic Dictionary - K., 2002. - pp. 114-116 Oleksandr Kultschyzkyj on litopys.org.ua ; accessed on August 26, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b Article on Oleksandr Kultschyzkyj on incognita.day.kyiv.ua ; accessed on August 26, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Society Political Portrait of Galicia in the revolution of 1918/19 , on franko.lviv.ua accessed on August 26, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Oleksandr Kultschyzkyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on August 29, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b c d Entry on Oleksandr Kultschyzkyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on August 26, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  6. ^ Entry on the Ukrainian Free University in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on August 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kultschyzkyj, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kultschyzkyj, Oleksandr Julianowytsch (full name); Кульчицький, Олександр Юліанович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian psychologist, sociologist and philosopher, and a social and political figure
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Skalat , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1980
Place of death Sarcelles , France