Wassyl Mudryj

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Wassyl Mudryj 1935

Wassyl Mykolaiowytsch Mudryj ( Ukrainian Василь Миколайович Мудрий , Polish Wasyl Mudry ; born March 19, 1893 in Wikno , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † March 19, 1966 in Yonkers , New York , USA ) was a Ukrainian journalist, politician and political activist.

Life

Mudryj was born into a peasant family in Wikno, a Galician village in what is now Hussiatyn Raion, Ukraine . He studied at Lviv University , where he was a board member of the Ukrainian Student Union and the Lviv Academic Hromada . From 1923 he worked for the Delo newspaper , the largest Ukrainian newspaper in interwar Poland, from 1927 to 1935 as its editor-in-chief. From 1921 to 1933 he was an activist of the Proswita and from 1921 to 1925 he was also the treasurer and secretary of the Secret Ukrainian University in Lviv.

He was a co-founder and between 1935 and 1939 chairman of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO), a Ukrainian party in the Second Polish Republic and a member of the Sejm . In parliament he was leader of the Ukrainian parliamentary representation and from November 6, 1938 to October 2, 1939 the deputy spokesman for the Sejm.

In 1944 he emigrated to Germany , where between 1944 and 1947 he was Vice-President of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council and Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian National Council. In 1949 he emigrated to the USA, where from 1953 he was Managing Director of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA). Since 1958 he was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society .

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Wassyl Mudryj wrote academic papers and essays on the history of the Ukrainian national movement in the 19th and 20th centuries: 1923 "Bloody struggle for Ukrainian culture in western Ukraine", 1929 "Ukrainian national-democratic union and its national environment"; 1933 “The Scourge of Ukraine”, 1948 “Ukrainian University in Lviv, 1921 to 1924” and 1957 “Ivan Franko as a public figure”.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b biography of Wassyl Mudryj in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on August 14, 2016
  2. ↑ a b biography Wassyl Mudryj in Ukraine world ; accessed on August 14, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956, page 90; accessed on August 14, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mudryj, Vasyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мудрий, Василь Миколайович (Ukrainian); Mudryj, Wassyl Mykolaiowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian journalist, politician and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wikno , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1966
Place of death Yonkers , New York , USA