Shevchenko Scientific Society

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Shevchenko Scientific Society
founding December 11, 1873
place Lviv ,  UkraineUkraineUkraine 
management Roman Kuschnir
Website ntsh.org

The Shevchenko Scientific Society ( Ukrainian Наукове товариство імені Шевченка ) is the oldest Ukrainian scientific organization .

Board of Directors and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Lviv, October 31, 1898. from left to right:
1st (bottom) row: Mychajlo Pawlyk , Yevhenija Jaroschynska , Natalija Kobrynska , Olha Kobyljanska , Sylwestr Lepkyj , Andrij Tschaikowskyj , Kostjantyn Pankiwskyj
2nd row : Ivan Kopatsch , Volodymyr Hnatjuk , Ossyp Makowej , mykhailo hrushevsky , Ivan Franko , Oleksandr Kolessa , Bohdan Lepkyj
3 (top) row: Ivan Petrushevich , Filaret Kolessa , Jossyp Kyschakewytsch , Ivan Trusch , Denys Lukijanowytsch , Mykola Iwasjuk

history

Foundation and flowering

The society named after the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko was founded on December 11th, 1873 in Lemberg , the then Galician capital of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , as a literary society with the aim of promoting the development of Ukrainian literature and language . In 1892 the name was changed to Scientific Society after the Society gave itself an updated charter and transformed into a true multidisciplinary Academy of Sciences .

It was the first Ukrainian public institution to have the name Taras Shevchenko in its name. In German-speaking countries, various translations as found Shevchenko Scientific Society , Scientific Shevchenko Society , Shevchenko Scientific Society u. a., in English-speaking countries it is translated with Shevchenko Scientific Society .

The society connected Ukrainian intellectuals on both sides of the Austrian-Russian border and, like Proswita founded in Lemberg in 1868 , promoted the idea of ​​Ukrainian national rebirth in the Russian-ruled part of Ukraine, which has been used since the Ems Decree of 1876 the Ukrainian language was a criminal offense in literature. At the end of the 19th century a library (the most complete and systematic collection of Ukrainian books, with 70,000 cataloged books and 500 manuscripts in 1914), a museum with 15,047 artefacts in 1920, and a bookshop were established in Lviv.

For most of its history the society had a historical-philosophical, a philological and a mathematical-medical-scientific department.

Under the presidency of Mychajlo Hruschewskyj , which lasted from 1897 to 1913 , the society acquired scientific prestige and pan-Ukrainian importance. It became a de facto Academy of Sciences to which almost all Ukrainian scholars belonged.

Decline after World War I and dissolution in the Soviet Union

During the Russian occupation of Lviv (1914–1915) in World War I , the company was closed and much was destroyed. After the end of the war, the revival of society in Lviv, now Polish, took place under difficult conditions, as it was subjected to reprisals by the Polish authorities. After the Soviets occupied Lviv at the end of 1939, they dissolved the society and transferred its museums and collections to other organizations. Some of its members were arrested and executed, and many members emigrated. They resumed the company's activities at a congress in Munich in 1947 and founded four centers in the following years: 1947 in the USA (see: Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US ), 1949 in Canada, 1950 in Australia and a Western European center near Paris .

New establishment during the collapse of the Soviet Union

During the perestroika in the Soviet Union, the society was able to become active again in Lviv on October 21, 1989 and subsequently undertook a large-scale research and publication program. Since Ukrainian independence, the new society turned into a public academy with six scientific sections, 35 committees and 15 branches in the regional centers of Ukraine.

Chair of the Scientific Society

Roman Kuschnir, chairman of the company since 2014

Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US

After the Scientific Society was dissolved in the Soviet Union in 1940 , the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US ( Ukrainian Наукове Товариство ім. Шевченка в Америці ) was founded in 1948 in the US state of New York in the tradition of the society founded in 1873 . Its headquarters, which has offices and lecture halls, a specialist library and an archive, is located in New York City at 63 Fourth Avenue. Offices are in Washington, DC , Philadelphia , Chicago , Detroit , Cleveland, and Boston . One focus of the Society is the awarding of scholarships to students and research grants to scholars. The society also takes part in national and international scientific conferences and congresses on Ukrainian and Slavonic studies and publishes scientific papers in various languages, including three multimedia encyclopedias of Ukraine.

Web links

Commons : Shevchenko Scientific Society  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reference to the picture in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 3, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e History of the Society on the website of the Shevchenko Scientific Society; accessed on May 3, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Shevchenko Scientific Society in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 3, 2017
  4. ^ Website of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US ; accessed on May 3, 2017