Dmytro Doroshenko
Dmytro Doroshenko | |
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Дмитро Дорошенко | |
Krai Commissar of Galicia and Bukovina General Government | |
In office 22 April 1917 – 2 August 1917 | |
Preceded by | Fyodor Trepov (as Governor General) |
Succeeded by | position abolished |
Governor of Chernihiv Governorate | |
In office August 1917 – January 1918 | |
Preceded by | Mykola Kulyabko-Koretskyi |
Succeeded by | Chernihiv Revkom |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine | |
In office 20 May 1918 – 24 October 1918 | |
President | Mykhailo Hrushevsky |
Prime Minister | Fedir Lyzohub |
Preceded by | Mykola Vasylenko |
Succeeded by | Georgiy Afanasyev |
Personal details | |
Born | Socialist Federalists | 8 April 1882
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Dmytro Ivanovych Doroshenko (
Political career
Doroshenko was born into an old Ukrainian
During the revolution of 1917–1918, Doroshenko held several responsible positions under the radical and socialist Ukrainian
Emigration
In 1919, Doroshenko went into exile and eventually settled in Prague where the Czechoslovak government gave refuge to Ukrainian and Russian emigres, especially scholars. During the inter-war period, Doroshenko was in turn a professor of history at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague, Director of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin, and Professor of Church History at the University of Warsaw. In 1937 and 1938, he made two highly successful lecture tours of Canada which at that time possessed a large Ukrainian immigrant population. In 1939, he returned to Prague where he continued his historical work at the Ukrainian Free University.
In 1945, Doroshenko fled to western Germany where he became the first president of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences. In 1947, he moved to Canada where he taught history and literature at Saint Andrew's College in Winnipeg and together with the literary historian, Leonid Biletsky, and the philologist, Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, established a branch of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences. However, he fell ill in Winnipeg and in 1950 returned to Europe. He died in Munich in early 1951.[3]
Historian
As a historian, Doroshenko represented the conservative Derzhavnyk or "statist" trend in Ukrainian historiography. On the one hand, he accepted the historical scheme of the famous Ukrainian historian, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, which saw continuity in the history of his country from Kyivan Rus' to modern times and claimed the heritage of Kyivan Rus' primarily for modern Ukraine, but on the other hand, he rejected Hrushevsky's stress upon the role of the common people, instead stressing the role of the educated political elite. Doroshenko was especially fond of the old Cossack officer class which evolved into the later Ukrainian gentry and he gave much space in his histories to the strivings of this elite for political autonomy and independence.
Major works
Doroshenko authored a two volume Survey of Ukrainian History, a Survey of Ukrainian Historiography, biographies of several major figures of the Ukrainian national awakening of the nineteenth century, a book on German depictions of Ukraine throughout the centuries, works on the revolutionary period and the Hetman state of 1918, a major work on his relative, the seventeenth century Cossack Hetman, Petro Doroshenko, booklets on church history, and two volumes of memoirs which treated the period from 1900 to 1919. His personal bibliography lists almost 1000 titles.
References
- ^ "Дорошенко Дмитро Іванович" [Doroshenko Dmitro Ivanovich]. Освіта.UA. 2020-02-02. Archived from the original on 2020-02-02. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ISBN 978-966-8653-95-7.
- ^ Андрєєв В. М. Український історичний журнал, № 4, 2007, C. 102—122. Дмитро Дорошенко: «перший» чи «другий» в українській історіографії першої половини XX ст.? (досвід вивчення інтелектуальної біографії історика)[permanent dead link] (tr. "Dmytro Doroshenko: "first" or "second" in Ukrainian historiography of the first half of the 20th century? (experience of studying the historian's intellectual biography)")[dead link]
- Dmytro Doroshenko, A Survey of Ukrainian History, ed. Oleh Gerus (Winnipeg, 1975).
- idem, "A Survey of Ukrainian Historiography," Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US, V-VI (1957).
- Thomas M. Prymak, "Dmytro Doroshenko: A Ukrainian Emigre Historian of the Interwar Period," Harvard Ukrainian Studies, XXV, 1–2 (2001), 31–56.
- Idem. "Dmytro Doroshenko and Canada," Journal of Ukrainian Studies, XXX, 2 (2005), 1–25.
External links
Works by Doroshenko
- History of the Ukraine (English abridgment and translation by Hanna Chykalenko-Keller of Нарис історії України (A Survey of Ukrainian History); Edmonton 1939)
- Taras Shevchenko, Bard of Ukraine (English, Prague 1936)
- A Survey of Ukrainian Historiography (English translation, 1957)