Oleksandr Lototskyj

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Oleksandr Lototskyj

Oleksandr Hnatowytsch Lotozkyj ( Ukrainian Олександр Гнатович Лотоцький , Russian Александр Игнатьевич Лотоцкий Alexander Ignatievich Lotozki ; born March 9, jul. / 21st March  1870 greg. In Bronnyzja , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 22. October 1939 in Warsaw , General Government ) was a Ukrainian church historian , economist , writer , publicist , diplomat and politician .

Life

Oleksandr Lototskyj was born in the village of Bronnyzja in what is now Mohyliv-Podilskyj Raion in the Ukrainian Oblast of Vinnytsia, on the banks of the Dniester and the border with Moldova . He was the son of the Orthodox priest Hnat Lotozkyj, who belonged to a boyar family known since the 15th century , which was related to the Giedroyć family, among others . After graduating from elementary school in Tultschyn in 1884, he was able to switch to the seminary in Kamyanets-Podilskyj on the recommendation of his teacher . His first poem appeared in the "Diocesan newspaper of Podilsky" in 1889 and in the same year he moved to the seminary in Tbilisi , Georgia , where his older brother taught. After his brother, who was blind in the meantime, moved to his parents in the Ukraine in the summer of 1890, he switched to the Kiev Theological Academy ( Киевская духовная академия ), which he graduated from in 1895.

Lotozkyj worked at the State Ministry of Financial Control in Kiev from 1897 to 1900 . In 1894 he was one of the founders of the Kiev publishing house Вік Wik and from 1900 he was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society . Between 1900 and 1917 he worked at the ministry in Saint Petersburg , where he was promoted to deputy general secretary. As an active member of the Society of Ukrainian Progressives ( Товариство Українських Поступовців "ТУП" ) founded in 1908, he supported the establishment of the Ukrainian caucus in the State Duma . During his time in Petersburg he was also active in a variety of academic, journalistic and literary fields. He dealt extensively with the economy and published a number of articles on it. He was also involved in promoting Taras Shevchenko's work among the Russian-speaking population, and dealt with church history and pedagogy, in particular teaching the Ukrainian language in schools.

After the February revolution of 1917 he became chairman of the Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd, which was founded in March 1917. After the appointment of the Provisional Government , he became governor of Bukovina and Pokutia in May 1917 . In January 1918 he went to Kiev and was immediately appointed Secretary General (Minister) in the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Central Na Rada . In the spring of 1918 he was briefly Minister for State Control in the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic and in October / November 1918 he was Minister for Religious Affairs in the Ukrainian State . As such, he was instrumental in the declaration of autocephaly by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on January 1, 1919. In January 1919 he was appointed Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey and traveled to Constantinople on a diplomatic mission to receive recognition of the status of the new church from the Patriarch of Constantinople . Due to the occupation of Turkey by the Entente and the Bolshevik takeover of power in the Ukraine, he emigrated to Vienna in March 1920 and to Prague in 1922 , where he was a lecturer and professor of canon law at the Ukrainian Free University until 1928 . From 1929 until his death he was Professor of Orthodox Church History at the University of Warsaw . Between 1930 and 1939 he was director of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Warsaw. He was also Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of the government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1927 to 1930.

He died in Warsaw at the age of 69. His ashes were transferred to St. Andrew's Cemetery in South Bound Brook , New Jersey , United States in 1971 and reburied.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e biography of Oleksandr Lotozkyj on litopys.org.ua ; accessed on April 20, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Oleksandr Lotozkyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 20, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Entry on Lototsky, Oleksander in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 20, 2019
  4. ↑ entry to Oleksandr Lotozkyj in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 20, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Lototskyj, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotozkyj, Oleksandr Hnatowytsch (full name); Лотоцький, Олександр Гнатович (Ukrainian); Лотоцкий, Александр Игнатьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian church historian, economist, writer, publicist, diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronnyzja , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1939
Place of death Warsaw , General Government