Wassyl Panejko

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Wassyl Lukytsch Panejko ( Ukrainian Василь Лукич Панейко , Russian Василий Лукич Панейко Wassili Lukitsch Paneiko ; * 1883 near Solotschiw , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary ; † May 29, 1956 in Journalism from Ukrainian , Venezuelan and Caracas diploma ) November 1918 to January 1919 first Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic .

Life

Vasyl Panejko came in 1883 in the Galician district administration Zolochiv in today's Rajon Zolochiv Ukrainian Lviv Oblast to the world. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Lviv University and was a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Party. After graduating, he mainly worked as a journalist in Lviv.

After the founding of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, he became its foreign minister on November 11, 1918 and remained that way until January 1919. He then chaired the delegation of the West Ukrainian People's Republic at the Paris Peace Conference . From 1920 he worked as a journalist and editor in Lviv and later as a correspondent in the French capital Paris . In 1945 he emigrated to the United States and in 1955 to Venezuela, in whose capital Caracas he died in 1956.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the State Secretariat of the Western Ukrainian National Republic in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 29, 2017
  2. Entry on Wassyl Panejko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  3. promyshlenniki-i-kupcy-solvychegodsk-perm-velikaya on istmira.com ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)