Tomasch Tomaschewitsch Grib
Tomasch Tomaschewitsch Grib ( Russian Томаш Томашевич Гриб , Belarusian Тамаш Тамашавіч Грыб ; born March 19 . Jul / 31 March 1895 greg. In Polyany at Švenčionys , Vilna Governorate , † 21st January 1938 in Prague ) was a Belarusian writer and politician .
Life
Grib came from a poor farming family. After attending school, he served in the Imperial Russian Navy . He then studied in St. Petersburg at the Psychoneurological Institute (Director WM Bechterew ) with Professor BI Epimach-Schipilo .
During the February Revolution of 1917 , Grib led the left wing of the Belarusian Socialist Hramada (BSG). There he met Paluta Badunowa , with whom he remained connected for a long time. Together with others he initiated the First All-Belarusian Congress in December 1917 in Minsk . He became a member of the provisional government of Belarus , the People's Secretariat , and was one of the founders of the Belarusian People's Republic , whose independence was proclaimed on March 25, 1918. In the new government he became Minister of Agriculture. After the BSG collapsed as a result of the dispute over contacts with the German government, he founded the Belarusian Party of Socialists and Revolutionaries in 1918 with Poluta Badunova and Iossif Mamonko . He worked as a writer and editor for various newspapers. In 1919 he published a newspaper in Vilnius . He was the editor of the Heimatland newspaper .
Grib was a member of the Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic in Vilna . During the Polish-Soviet war , Vilna was occupied by the Polish army. When the Rada refused to join Grodno and Vilna to Poland , the Polish authorities dissolved the Rada in 1919 and arrested its praesidium including Lastowski , Badunowa, Grib and Mamonko . After a while, Grib was released. When the union with the Bolsheviks forced by the Polish intervention was dissolved after the end of the war , Grib emigrated to Prague .
Grib studied it at the Prague Charles University with doctorate to Dr. phil. He remained a staunch anti- Bolshevik and anti-communist until the end of his life . In contrast to other Belarusian politicians in emigration, he did not accept the invitation to return to the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic . From 1931 he published the political magazine Iskry Skaryny in Prague . He wrote essays on history. He founded and expanded the Belarusian section in the National Library of the Czechoslovak Republic , and he founded and directed the Belarusian Archives in Prague.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Hryb Tamaš (accessed December 30, 2016).
- ↑ Badunova Paluta (accessed December 30, 2016).
- ↑ Mamońka Jazep (accessed December 30, 2016).
- ↑ Per Anders Rudling: The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931 . University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grib, Tomasch Tomaschewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Гриб, Томаш Томашевич (Russian); Грыб, Тамаш Тамашавіч (Belarusian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian writer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poljany near Švenčionys , Vilnius Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1938 |
| Place of death | Prague |