Volodymyr Starossolskyi
Volodymyr Jakymowytsch Starossolskyj ( Ukrainian Володимир Якимович Старосольський ; * January 8, 1878 in Jarosław , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary ; † February 25, 1942 in Mariinsk , Russian SFSR , Ukrainian jurist, Soviet Union ) was a Russian SFSR .
Life
Wolodymyr Starossolskyj was born in what is now Poland's Jarosław . In 1896 he began to study law at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow , which he continued at the universities of Vienna , Berlin (1905-1906), Graz (1907) and Heidelberg (1907-1908, 1911-1912). During his studies he was a founding member of the student Moloda-Ukraina-Gesellschaft (German: Junge Ukraine ), which existed from 1899 to 1903, and was the publisher of the newspaper of the same name.
After completing his studies, he practiced as a lawyer in Lviv and defended, among other things, political activists, including Myroslaw Sitschynskyj ( Мирослав Миколайович Січинський , 1887–1979) in court. He was also a co-founder and first president of a Ukrainian paramilitary organization in 1913. During the First World War he took part in the freedom struggle of Ukraine. In 1918 he became a member of the Ukrainian Military Committee and in the autumn of 1919 he became Deputy Foreign Minister Andrij Liwyzkyj in the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic under Issaak Masepa . During the existence of the People's Republic he was also a professor at the Ukrainian State University Kamyanets-Podilskyj .
After the collapse of the People's Republic, he lived in exile in Vienna and Prague and taught as a professor of constitutional law at the Ukrainian Free University in Vienna and the Ukrainian Business Academy in Poděbrady, Czech Republic . In 1923 Volodymyr Starossolskyj became a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society . In 1927 he returned to Lviv and founded a law firm which also defended prominent members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in court. Between 1937 and 1939 he was, succeeding Lev Hankewytsch ( Лев Юліанович Ганкевич ; 1883–1962), chairman of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party .
In September 1939 he became a professor at Lviv University . However, Starossolskyj was arrested by the NKVD as early as December 1939, after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland , and sentenced to eight years in prison, in which he died at the age of 64 in a gulag in Mariinsk in western Siberia.
Web links
- Biography Volodymyr Starossolskyj in ukrainians-world (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Starosolsky, Volodymyr in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 11, 2017
- ↑ Biography Volodymyr Starossolskyj on storinka-m.kiev ; accessed on April 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Starossolskyi, Volodymyr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Starossolskyj, Volodymyr Jakymowytsch (full name); Старосольський, Володимир Якимович (ukS-Cyrl) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian lawyer, sociologist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jarosław , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1942 |
| Place of death | Mariinsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union |