Stepan Smal-Stozkyj
Stepan Smal-Stozkyj ( Ukrainian Степан Смаль-Стоцький ; born January 8, 1859 in Nemyliw ( Lviv Oblast ), † August 17, 1938 in Prague ) was a Ukrainian Slavist and politician, a member of the Bukovinian state parliament (10th electoral period) and the Austrian Chamber of Deputies (12th legislative period), professor at Chernivtsi University and at the Free Ukrainian University in Prague.
Stepan Smal-Stozkyj came from a Ukrainian peasant family. He attended a Lviv grammar school. After graduating from high school in 1878, he studied Slavic philology at the Franz Josef University in Chernivtsi with Ignaz Onyszkiewicz. He continued his studies at the University of Vienna in 1883 and received his doctorate from Franz von Miklosich in 1884 . In 1885 he became associate professor , in 1893 full professor of Ruthenian language and literature at the University of Chernivtsi. In 1894/1895 and 1904/1905 he was elected dean.
From 1893 he was a member of the Bukovinian state parliament (Xth electoral period), 1911–1918 member of the Austrian House of Representatives. In 1904 he was appointed deputy governor of the Duchy of Bukovina.
In 1918 Smal-Stozkyj left Chernivtsi and came to Prague , where in 1919 he took over the post of envoy of the West Ukrainian People's Republic . In 1921 he was appointed professor of Ukrainian language and literature at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague . At the end of 1918 he became a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences .
Smal-Stozkyj propagated the use of the term "Ukrainian" instead of the previous "Ruthenian". He designed the uniform Ukrainian orthography that was introduced in the schools of the monarchy in 1893. As a literary scholar, he studied the works of Ukrainian writers.
Smal-Stozkyj was politically active since his youth. In the Bucovinian state parliament he led the "Young Ruthenians". He founded Ukrainian popular education associations and economic cooperatives.
He was buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow.
His son Roman Smal-Stozkyj (1893–1969) became professor of Ukrainian language at the universities in Prague (1923–1926), Warsaw (1926–1939) and from 1947 in the USA. In addition, Stepan Smal-Stozkyj was the grandfather of the Ukrainian-Canadian literary scholar Jurij Luzkyj .
Works (selection)
- with Theodor Gartner: Grammar of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) language. Bookshop of the Szewczenko Society of Sciences in Lemberg, Vienna 1913.
- Ruthenian-German conversation book. GJ Göschen, Berlin / Leipzig 1914.
- Ukrainian reader with glossary. W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1927.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950. Volume 12 (Lfg. 58, 2005), p. 363f.
- ↑ Website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Membership website Smal-Stozkyj, Stepan, accessed on November 29, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smal-Stozkyj, Stepan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Смаль-Стоцький, Степан (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian linguist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nemyliw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 17, 1938 |
| Place of death | Prague |