Ivan Krypiakevych
Ivan Krypiakevych (
Austrian period
Krypiakevych was born and raised in Lemberg (
From 1911 to 1939, he taught at the Polish gymnasia (High Schools) at Zhovkva and Rohatyn and at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv. From 1918 to 1919, he taught at the newly established Ukrainian University at Kamianets-Podilskyi but returned to Galicia (now absorbed into Poland) at the fall of the Ukrainian People's Republic to the Soviets. In 1921-25 Krypiakevych was a professor of the clandestine Lviv Ukrainian University.
Interwar Galicia
During the interwar period, Krypiakevych, being excluded from a university position by the Polish regime, continued to teach at various gymnasia and to actively support the Shevchenko Scientific Society. From 1921 to 1924, he was a professor of the Secret Ukrainian University in Lviv and was secretary of its senate. From 1934 to 1939, he taught at the Greek Catholic Theological Academy. All of his major works during this period appeared in Ukrainian and not Polish. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he remained active in various educational and public projects such as preserving the gravesites of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and promoting tourist literature about Ukrainian Galicia. From 1934, he was head of the Historical Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.
Unlike many other students of Hrushevsky, Krypiakevych never politically or intellectually rebelled against the authority of his mentor, Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Although he did turn away from Hrushevsky's populism to a pro-state interpretation of Ukrainian history, he revered his mentor's memory and in 1935 published a short biography of him.
Soviet annexation and war
The 1939
The university was suppressed during the German occupation but Krypiakevych found work at the Ukrainian Publishing House in Lviv. Unlike many of his Galician Ukrainian colleagues, mostly for family reasons, he decided to remain in Lviv after the German retreat westwards.
Soviet period
The
Major works
Krypiakevych's early works dealt with the early modern history of the City of Lviv and the social history of
During the period of Polish ascendency, Krypiakevych co-authored and published many popularizations, the most important of which were his "Great History of Ukraine" (1935), his "History of the Ukrainian Army" (1936), and his "History of Ukrainian Culture" (1937). His textbooks of Ukrainian history were widely used both in Galicia and also among Ukrainians in North America. At this time, he also prepared a new scholarly "History of Ukraine" which was only published in 1949 in the west under the pseudonym 'Ivan Kholmsky'.
During the Soviet period, Krypiakevych was known as an expert on the era of Khmelnytsky and on the occasion of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the
Legacy
With the emergence of the
In 1993 the Institute of Social Studies of Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR in Lviv was renamed into the Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
Family
Ivan Krypiakevych had two sons who later became Ukrainian scientists.
- Petro-Bohdan (1923-1980)
- Roman (1925-1999)
Further reading
Scholarly study of the life and work of Ivan Krypiakevych is only beginning, but see:
- Ivan Krypiakevych, Istoriia Ukrainy (Lviv, 1990). Reprint of the work which originally appeared under the pseudonym "Ivan Kholmsky." Contains a biographical introduction by Yaroslav Dashkevych.
- Idem, Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Lviv, 1990). Uncensored edition of the 1954 work. Contains some introductory remarks by Yaroslav Isaievych.
- Article on "Krypiakevych, Ivan," in the Dovidnyk z istorii Ukrainy 2nd ed. (Kiev, 2002), p. 374. Also available on-line.
See also
External links
- Ivan Krypiakevych on the Encyclopedia of Ukraine website.
- Pritsak, O. Ivan Krypiakevych. Chtyvo.
- All works of Ivan Krypiakevych is available at Chtyvo.org