Oleksandr Schulhyn

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Олександр Якович Шульгин
Transl. :	Oleksandr Jakovyč Šul'hyn
Transcr. :	Oleksandr Jakowytsch Schulhyn
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Александр Яковлевич Шульгин
Transl .:	Oleksandr Jakovyč Šul'hyn
Transcr .:	Alexander Jakowlewitsch Schulgin

Oleksandr Schulhyn 1917

Oleksandr Jakowytsch Schulhyn (* July 18 ^{. Jul} / 30th July  1889 ^greg. In Sofyne , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 4. March 1960 in Paris , France ) was a Ukrainian historian, politician and exiled politicians. After the proclamation of the independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic , he was its foreign minister from July 17, 1917 to January 31, 1918 .

Life

Oleksandr Schulhyn was born as the son of the historian, educator and social and cultural activist Jakiw Schulhyn (1851-1911) in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava . He studied history and philosophy, he graduated from 1908 to 1915 at the University in St. Petersburg , where he politically active and a member of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Democratic Radical Party (UDRP) and delegate was of the Soviet of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies after his studies.

After the February Revolution in 1917 he moved to Kiev and was elected a member of the Central Na Rada . From July 1917 to January 30, 1918 he was Secretary General for national and later international affairs (Foreign Minister). During his term of office both the recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic by Great Britain and France and the beginning of the peace negotiations between Brest-Litovsk and the Central Powers fell .

During the Ukrainian state under Hetmanat Pavlo Skoropadskyj he was an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from July to December 1918 Ukrainian ambassador to Bulgaria . In 1919 he was a Ukrainian delegate at the Paris Peace Conference and in 1920 he was head of the Ukrainian delegation to the first assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva . From 1921 he headed the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian National Republic (Ukrainska Narodnia Respublika - UNR) in Paris. Between 1923 and 1927 Schulhyn was employed as a professor at the Ukrainian Free University and the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute in Prague . From 1926 to 1936 he was Foreign Minister of the UNR government in exile (again in 1939/40 and 1945/46). In 1927 he moved to Paris, where he headed the Emigration Council between 1929 and 1939 and the UNR-exile government in 1939/40. He was also co-editor of the weekly Trysub . After the Second World War , he founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1946 , which he also headed until 1960. He was also the Ukrainian representative of the International Refugee Organization between 1948 and 1952 and vice-president of the International Free Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1952 to 1960.

Schulhyn wrote numerous articles on the Ukrainian struggle for independence from 1917 to 1920 and on the work of the UNR government in exile.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Oleksandr Schulhyn. In: “Ukrainian Center”; accessed on November 9, 2016 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Shulhyn, Oleksander. In: Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on November 9, 2016