Stauropegion Institute
The Stauropegion Institute was one of the most important cultural and educational institutions in
History
The Stauropegion Institute was founded in Lviv in 1788 on the orders of Joseph II, Emperor of Austria soon after Austria annexed Eastern Galicia, now western Ukraine, from Poland during the First Partition of Poland. It was based on the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood, a Ukrainian Catholic religious brotherhood.[1]
Until the mid-19th century the Stauropegion Institute was the only large educational and cultural institution in western Ukraine. It operated a printing press, bound and sold books, maintained a scholarship fund, and published textbooks and spelling primers. In the mid-19th century the Institute was taken over by
Collection
The Stauropegion Institute had a large endowment and owned several parcels of land and buildings throughout Lviv. It housed numerous important historical and cultural documents. The Institute's collection included the 12th century Horodyshche Apostolos, the 13th century Horodyshche Gospel, The Book of the Soul Named Gold written by
See also
- Ukrainian Russophiles
Notes
- ^ a b c Stauropegion Institute Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5. (1993). Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto Press.
External links
- Stauropegion Institute website (Ukrainian)
- Orlevych, I. Stauropegion Institute. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.