Roman Smal-Stozkyj
Roman Stepanowytsch Smal-Stozkyj ( Ukrainian Роман Степанович Смаль-Стоцький , English Roman Smal-Stocki ; born January 8, 1893 in Chernivtsi , Duchy of Bukovina , Austria-Hungary ; † April 27, 1969 in Washington, DC , United States. ) Was a Ukrainian Linguist , university professor and ambassador .
Life
Roman Smal-Stozkyj was born as the son of the Ukrainian Slavist and politician Stepan Smal-Stozkyj in Chernivtsi in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Chernivtsi . Between 1903 and 1911 he attended school in his hometown and then studied linguistics at the universities in Vienna , Leipzig and finally in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1915 and then taught at the Orient Academy in Berlin .
During the First World War he was involved in the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, which he supported in organizing educational and cultural activities for Ukrainian prisoners of war who had fought in the Russian army . At the end of 1918 he became the diplomatic representative of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Berlin and in January 1919, after the merger of the West Ukrainian People's Republic with the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR), he became an advisor and in 1921, in successor to Mykola Porsch , Ambassador of the Ukrainian Embassy in Berlin . After the fall of the Ukrainian People's Republic in March 1923, he was until 1926 a professor of comparative Slavic linguistics at the Ukrainian Free University in the Czech capital Prague , and at the end of 1924-1939, first as an assistant professor and later as a full professor of Ukrainian linguistics at the University in Warsaw where he was also secretary of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute from 1929 to 1939. From 1924 to 1945 he was also visiting professor at universities in London and Cambridge and acted as the unofficial representative of the UNR government in London. In 1934 Smal-Stozkyj became a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv . During the Second World War he was a professor at Prague University .
After the war he emigrated to the American occupation zone in West Germany and from there to the United States in 1957. There he was Professor of Eastern European History at Marquette University in Milwaukee until 1965 , where he founded a Slavic Institute in 1949 and was its director until his retirement in 1965. From 1951 he was President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and from 1955 Chairman of the World Council of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was also a member of the Political Council of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and one of the initiators of the construction of the Taras Shevchenko monument in the American capital. Roman Smal-Stozkyj has published more than 150 works on the Ukrainian language, literature, culture, history and politics. He died in Washington, DC at the age of 76 and was buried in the Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Langhorne , Pennsylvania .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography Smal-Stockyj Stephan in biographien.ac.at ; accessed on March 2, 2019
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Roman Smal-Stozkyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 2, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c d e f Smal-Stocki, Roman Ukrainians in the United Kingdom Online encyclopaedia ; accessed on March 2, 2019
- ↑ a b c Entry on Roman Smal-Stozkyj in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 2, 2019
- ↑ Shevchenko in Washington in Ukrainian week number 10 (175) / 2011 of March 11, 2011; accessed on August 15, 2018 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Smal-Stozkyj, Roman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smal-Stozkyj, Roman Stepanowytsch (full name); Смаль-Стоцький, Роман Степанович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian linguist, university professor and ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi , Duchy of Bukovina , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1969 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC , United States |