Volodymyr Temnyzkyj

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Володимир Миколайович Темницький
Transl. :	Volodymyr Mykolajovyč Temnyc'kyj
Transcr. :	Volodymyr Mykolaiowytsch Temnyzkyj

Volodymyr Temnyzkyj

Wolodymyr Mykolaiowytsch Temnyzkyj (born July 24, 1879 in Chlopiwka , Austria-Hungary , † January 26, 1938 in Lviv , Poland ) was a Ukrainian politician. From April to August 1919 he was Foreign Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic .

Life

Volodymyr Temnyzkyj was born in Chlopiwka in what is now the Hussiatyn district of the Ukrainian oblast of Ternopil as the son of a Greek Catholic priest. After graduating from university he studied at the Law Faculty of Lviv University , where he was a politically active student and one of the founders of the Ukrainian student association "Young Ukraine" ( Молода Україна ) and the monthly magazine of the same name, which appeared in Lviv from 1900 to 1903. After he was expelled from the university in Lviv, he finished his studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the University of Vienna .

Between 1914 and 1920 Volodymyr Temnyzkyj was the chairman of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Ukrajinska Sozialno-Demokratytschna robitnytscha partija, USDRP). From January to February 1919 Temnyzkyj deputy foreign minister in the government was Tschechiwskyj and from April 1919 to August 1920 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government Martos of the Ukrainian People's Republic and as such a member of the delegation of the Ukrainian People's Republic to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 .

At the beginning of the 1920s he emigrated, from which he returned to Stanyslaviv in 1922 and was again a leader in the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. From 1928 he lived again in Lviv, where he died on January 26, 1938 after a long and serious illness. Two days later he was buried in the Lychakivski Cemetery in Lviv.

Individual evidence

1. ^ History and traditions of the Diplomatic Service of Ukraine on the website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; accessed on December 29, 2016 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Biography Volodymyr Temnyzkyj in the library of the Ukraine ; accessed on December 29, 2016 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Wolodymyr Temnyzkyj - Political biography on livasprava ; accessed on December 29, 2016 (Ukrainian)