Shevchenko Scientific Society

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Shevchenko Scientific Society
Formation1873
HeadquartersLviv, Ukraine
Chairman
Roman Kushnir
WebsiteOfficial website
The board and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida, Lviv, 31 October 1898: Sitting in the first row: Mykhaylo Pavlyk, Yevheniya Yaroshynska, Natalia Kobrynska, Olha Kobylianska, Sylvester Lepky, Andriy Chaykovsky, Kost Pankivsky. In the second row: Ivan Kopach, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Osyp Makovej, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Kolessa, Bohdan Lepky. Standing in the third row: Ivan Petrushevych, Filaret Kolessa, Yossyp Kyshakevych, Ivan Trush, Denys Lukianovych, Mykola Ivasyuk.

The Shevchenko Scientific Society (Ukrainian: Наукове товариство імені Шевченка, romanized: Naukóve tovarýstvo imeni Shevchénka), founded in 1873, is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication.

Unlike the government-funded

fall of the Soviet Union, after being exiled from Ukraine since 1940. The society now has branches in several countries around the globe, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and France
.

The organisation is named after the famous Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, Taras Shevchenko.

History

It was founded in 1873 in Lemberg (today

Oleksandr Konyskyi and the Shevchenko's contemporary Dmytro Pylchykov with a financial support of Yelyzaveta Myloradovych-Skoropadska.[1]

In 1893, due to the change in its statute the Shevchenko Scientific Society was transformed into a real scholarly multidisciplinary academy of sciences with its periodical the Zapysky NTSh (Notes of the Shevchenko Scientific Society), yet continue to be specialized in the Ukrainian Studies. Throughout most of its history it had three sections: history-philosophical, philological, and mathematically-medical-natural scientific. Under the presidency of the historian, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, it greatly expanded its activities, contributing to both the humanities and the physical sciences, law and medicine, but most specifically once again it concentrated on Ukrainian studies. During this period, one of its most prolific contributors was the poet, folklorist, and literary historian Ivan Franko who headed the philological section. Also during that period the society created several museums, libraries, and archives. By 1914, several hundred volumes of scholarly research and notices had been published by the society including over a hundred volumes of its Zapysky.

See also:
Russian occupation of Eastern Galicia, 1914–15

The

Kyryl Studynsky, and the historian Ivan Krypiakevych
. One of the most important projects of the society was the publication of the first general alphabetic encyclopedia in the Ukrainian language.

The

Volodymyr Kubiyovych,[2][3] it was re-founded as an émigré scholarly society in Munich; the Society's European center was later moved to Paris. Other branches were also founded in New York City (1947), Toronto (1949) and Australia (1950), and throughout the Cold War
it functioned as a federation of semi-independent societies.

Shevchenko Scientific Society building in New York City.
Entrance to the Shevchenko Scientific Society at 63 Fourth Avenue in Manhattan

During its period in emigration, the major project of the society was again an

Volodymyr Kubiyovych, it published the great Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva (Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies) consisting of four major series: the Ukrainian-language thematic encyclopedia in three volumes, the Ukrainian-language alphabetic encyclopedia in 11 volumes, the English-language thematic encyclopedia in two volumes, and the English-language alphabetic one in five volumes. The last compilation, published in Canada under the title Encyclopedia of Ukraine
, is available on-line.

In 1989, the society was reactivated in the Ukrainian homeland (in Lviv) and once again undertook a large-scale research and publication program. Branches were soon founded in other Ukrainian cities and membership exceeded a thousand, including 125 full voting members.

Presidents

Ukraine

  • 1873–1885 Kornylo Sushkevych
  • 1885–1887 Sydir Hromnytsky
  • 1887–1889 Demian Hladylovych
  • 1889–1891 Sydir Hromnytsky
  • 1891–1892 Demian Hladylovych
  • 1892–1893 Yulian Tselevych
  • 1893–1897 Oleksander Barvinsky
  • 1897–1913 Mykhailo Hrushevsky
  • 1913–1918 Stepan Tomashivsky
  • 1919–1923 Vasyl Shchurat
  • 1923–1932
    Kyrylo Studynsky
  • 1932–1935 Volodymyr Levytsky
  • 1935–1940 Ivan Rakovsky
  • 1940–1989 Soviet occupation and World War II
  • 1989–2005 Oleh Romaniv
  • 2005–2014 Oleh Kupchynsky
  • 2014– Roman Kushnir

Europe

  • ????–1952
    Zenon Kuzela
  • 1952–1985
    Volodymyr Kubiyovych
  • 1985–1997 Arkadiy Zhukovsky
  • 1997–1999 Danylo Husar-Struk
  • 2000–2011 Arkadiy Zhukovsky
  • 2011– Stefan Dunikovsky

United States

Canada

  • 1949–1973 Yevhen Vertyporokh
  • 1974–1994 Bohdan Stebelsky
  • 1994–2000 Vladimir Mackiw
  • 2000– Daria Darevych

Society press media

Literaturno-naukovy visnyk (English: Literary-scientific herald) was published 1898-1906, 1922-1932 in Lviv and 1907–1914, 1917-1919 in Kyiv. The chief editor was Ivan Franko, since 1905 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Appeal of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Office in America to Head of Ukrainian Committee of Shevchenko National Prize academician Borys Oliynyk (Звернення Управи Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці до Голови комітету Національної премії України ім. Т. Г. Шевченка академіка Бориса Олійника). Shevchenko Scientific Society website. 11 January 2016
  2. ISBN 978-3-8382-0686-8. The head of this important academic project (Encyclopedia of Ukraine
    ) was Volodymyr Kubiiovych, one of the major Ukrainian collaborators with the Nazis, and who, after the Second World War, became the Secretary General of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.(page 452)..In April 1941, Kubiiovych asked Hans Frank, head of the General Government, to set up an ethnically pure Ukrainian enclave there, free from Jews and Poles (Page 226)
  3. ISBN 978-1-61249-680-1
    . Volodymyr Kubiiovych ... top Ukrainian collaborator in occupied Poland ... a prewar academic and ardent nationalist ... hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich.

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