Ihor Ševčenko

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Ihor Ševčenko (

philologist and historian of Ukrainian origin. He was a Byzantinist and paleo-Slavic professor of classical philology at Harvard University. He died 26 December 2009[1] in Cambridge, Massachusetts
.

Biography

Ševčenko was born in Radość near

medievalist who worked on political and intellectual history.[2] Ševčenko was married to Margaret (née Bentley) Ševčenko and to Nancy (née Patterson) Ševčenko; both marriages ended in divorce.[3]

Scholarship

Ševčenko has contributed to two connected yet distinct disciplines,

paleography and codicology. He was noted for the engaging, "detective novel" style of his prose,[citation needed] as in his famous article “The Date and Author of the So-Called Fragments of Toparcha Gothicus”,[4] which reveals that the text considered the earliest surviving narrative source on the history of the Kievan Rus’ is a 19th-century forgery crafted by its “discoverer” and editor Carl Benedict Hase
.

Ševčenko's approach was noted for its extensive engagement with

Zealot uprising in 14th century Thessaloniki. His most recent publication was an edition and English translation of the only extant secular biography in Byzantine literature, that of the life of the 9th century emperor Basil I, which was written by scholars associated with Basil's grandson, Emperor Constantine VII. Basil's biography is a major source for the political and cultural history of Byzantium
and its neighbors in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Animal Farm

While working with displaced Ukrainian persons after World War II, Ševčenko wrote to George Orwell and received permission to translate Animal Farm into Ukrainian, one of the first translations of the book. Orwell agreed, waiving his royalties and also writing a detailed preface for the edition.[5]

Ševčenko's law

Ševčenko's law or Ševčenko's law of the dog and the forest is the tendency of historians to repeat the coverage and the work of previous historians, to the disadvantage of general historical coverage. The situation is compared to a

urinates against it. Despite the tree having no intrinsic outstanding attraction as an object for urinating against, other dogs subsequently entering the same forest will show a tendency to urinate against the same tree.[6][7]

Awards and honors

Publications

  • Ihor Ševčenko, Études sur la polémique entre Théodore Métochite et Nicéphore Choumnos (1962). ASIN: B000KJ9U8O
  • Ihor Ševčenko, Society and Intellectual Life in Late Byzantium (1981)
    ISBN 978-0-86078-083-0
  • Ihor Ševčenko, Ideology, Letters and Culture in the Byzantine World (1982)
  • Ihor Ševčenko, Byzantium and the Slavs in Letters and Culture (1991)
    ISBN 978-0-916458-12-6
  • Ihor Ševčenko, Ukraine between East and West (1996)
    ISBN 978-1-895571-15-8
  • Ihor Ševčenko, ed. and trans., Chronographiae Quae Theophanis Continuati Nomine Fertur Liber V Quo Vita Basilii Imperatoris Amplectitur (
    ISBN 978-3-11-018477-8 [1][10]
  • Zakorzeniony kosmopolita. Ihor Szewczenko w rozmowie z Łukaszem Jasiną, Lublin: Instytut Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej 2010
    ISBN 978-83-60695-51-7 [2]
    .


Notes

  1. ^ The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute announces the death of its co-founder Archived 2010-06-27 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
  2. ^ Peter Schreiner, “Das Janusportrait eines Gelehrten: Ihor Sevcenko als Byzantinist und Slavist” Palaeoslavica 10: 1 (2002), v-ix. ISSN 1070-5465
  3. Harvard
    Ukrainian Studies Program)
  4. ^ Dumbarton Oaks Papers 25 (1971), 117-188.
  5. ^ William Grimes, "Ihor Sevcenko, Byzantine and Slavic Scholar, Dies at 87", The New York Times, January 5, 2010.
  6. ^ Xi Yu, "Eminent Byzantinist Dies, Leaves Legacy of Open-Minded Scholarship", The Harvard Crimson, January 7, 2010.
  7. ^ Simon Franklin, Jonathan Shepard, The Emergence of Russia 750-1200, p. PR21, at Google Books, Routledge, 2014,
    ISBN 131787224X
  8. ^ "Ihor Sevcenko". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  9. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  10. ^ From DeGruyter Website: "DE GRUYTER - History - Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati nomine fertur Liber quo Vita Basilii Imperatoris amplectitur - Byzanz; Basilios I.; Geschichte". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2009-12-31.

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External links

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