Szjapan Nekrashevich

Szjapan Nekraschewitsch ( Belarusian Сьцяпан Некрашэвіч ; born May 8, 1883 in Danilouka , Minsk Governorate , Russian Empire (now Svetlahorsk Raion , Belarus ); † December 20, 1937 in Minsk , BSSR ) was a Belarusian linguist and social activist.

Life

Nekraschewitsch attended a teachers 'seminar until 1908 and the teachers' institute in Vilnius until 1914 . In 1914 he joined the Russian Army and fought in Romania . He returned in February 1917 and began to be politically active. Nekrashevich joined the Belarusian Socialist Hramada and the Belarusian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. In the autumn of 1917 he went to Odessa to offer cultural activities for the Belarusian soldiers and to help refugees. With the establishment of the Belarusian People's Republic , Nekrashevich became the representative of the government in southern Ukraine. His aim was to create Belarusian military units to fight against the Bolsheviks.

In 1920 Nekrashevich moved to Minsk, where he worked in the People's Commissariat for Education of the BSSR. He helped found the Institute of Belarusian Culture and was its director from 1922 to 1925. From 1926 to 1928 he was chairman of the Department of Arts in the Belarusian Academy of Sciences . In 1929 Nekraschewitsch became director of the Institute for Linguistics. In 1930 he was arrested on charges of belonging to a so-called "Union for the Liberation of Belarus" and deported to Siberia for five years . In 1937 Nekrashevich was sentenced to death and executed.

Individual evidence

^ Wojciech Roszkowski , Jan Kofman (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, Abingdon et al. 2015, ISBN 978-0-7656-1027-0 , p. 708.

personal data
SURNAME	Nekraschewitsch, Szjapan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Некрашэвіч, Сьцяпан (Belarusian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belarusian linguist and social activist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danilouka , Minsk Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1937
Place of death	Minsk , BSSR

[1] Wojciech Roszkowski , Jan Kofman (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, Abingdon et al. 2015, ISBN 978-0-7656-1027-0 , p. 708.