Volodymyr Schemet
Volodymyr Mychajlowytsch Schemet ( Ukrainian Володимир Михайлович Шемет , Russian Владимир Михайлович Шемет Vladimir Mikhailovich Schemet * 1. July 1873 in the estate Aleksandrowka in Lubny , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 14. May 1933 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian journalist, Philologist and politician.
Life
Volodymyr Shemet was born into a family of landowners in the Poltava governorate, the scion of an old noble Cossack family. He studied at high schools in Lubny and Saint Petersburg and studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University and at the Faculties of Natural Sciences of the Vladimir University of Kiev , where he became a member of the Taras Brotherhood . In 1896, Schemet founded a branch of the Brotherhood in Lubny and at the end of 1901 - beginning of 1902 he founded the Ukrainian People's Party together with Mykola Michnowskyj and in 1905, as a representative of this party and a member of the Poltava Governorate, became a member of the first elected State Duma in the Russian Empire. During this time he was also a co-founder and editor of Ukrainian newspapers. In October 1917 he was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Democratic Party for Livelihood and in April 1918 was an active participant in Pavlo Skoropadskyj's coup to establish the hetmanate . Between 1919 and 1923 he worked in the commission for the creation of a dictionary of the Ukrainian language at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . He was forced to leave the academy on charges of nationalist inclinations . He died in Kiev in 1933 and was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery .
Web links
- Biography of Volodymyr Shemet on the website History Poltava (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Volodymyr Schemet in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 23, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Wolodymyr Schemet Biographical Dictionary; accessed on March 23, 2019 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Schemet, Volodymyr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shemet, Volodymyr Mychajlowytsch (full name); Шемет, Володимир Михайлович (Ukrainian); Шемет, Владимир Михайлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian journalist, philologist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Lubny , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1933 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |