Kost Levytsky

Food Lewyzkyj (Ukrainian Кость Левицький, born November 18, 1859 in Tysmenyzja, today Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, † November 12, 1941 in Lviv, Ukraine) was a prominent lawyer and Lemberger Galician politician, chairman of the Ukrainian National Democratic Party (UNDP ).

From 1907 to 1918 was Lewyzkyj member of the Austrian Imperial Council, where he held the post of Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies for a long time, from 1910 to 1916 also chaired the Reichsratfraktion the Ukrainian parlamantarischen clubs and in both chambers of the Imperial Council directed the Association of Ukrainian members of Parliament. Between 1908 and 1914 Lewyzkyj was also a member of the Galician Landtag, where he held the office of Vice- President of the Chamber and the chair of the " Ruthenian Club" ( 1910-1914 ).

After the dissolution of Austria - Hungary, he was the first president of the State Council - the government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic.

Life and work

Food Lewyckyj (now Ivano- Frankivsk ) born in 1859 in the small Galician town of Stanislav Tysmenyzja in the family of a Greek Catholic priest. In 1878, after graduating from high school in Stanislav, followed law studies at the universities of Lemberg and Vienna, 1884, the Doctorate of Law from the University of Vienna.

1890 made ​​Lewyzkyj his office in Lviv on. Working as a lawyer, he united with the activity in various committees of the Ukrainian business associations such as the artisan cooperative Zorya ( "Star" ), the consumer cooperative Polish National torhiwlja ( "people trafficking", 1883), the Cooperative Bank Dniester (1891 ), the National Credit Union (1898), the State audit Union (1904 ) and the mortgage Bank (1910).

In 1881 he was co-founder of the first professional association of Ukrainian lawyers Kruschok prawnyzyj ( " Legal Circles " ), was also a board member of " Prosvita ".

In 1889 he founded, together with other lawyers Lviv the Ukrainian Law Journal ( 1894 - edition of Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv ), shortly after the quarterly journal of the Association of Ukrainian lawyers Schyttja i prawo ( "Life and Law")

In the interwar period he was a member of the Central Committee of the ukraininischen National Democratic Association, Director of the Centro Bank and authored major historical treatises on the history of Ukraine.

After the invasion of the Soviet Army in September 1939 in the Western Ukraine, he was arrested by Soviet authorities and imprisoned in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. In the spring of 1941 he was released and able to return to Lviv. Eight days after the beginning of the German -Soviet War a short-lived Ukrainian state was proclaimed on 30 June 1941 with Levytsky headed the elders of the national government under the patronage of Stepan Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Lewyzkyj is considered one of the principal founders of a Ukrainian legal terminology; he translated numerous Austrian laws from German and wrote a German -Ukrainian dictionary for lawyers. In particular, he tried to access the Ukrainian population of Galicia for legal assistance and to raise awareness of their rights. Is known is his series of popular essays right for most rural populations, as our freedom, or what rights we have (1888), Our municipal law, or what rights and obligations we have in the municipality (1889 ), etc.

  • Politicians (Ukraine )
  • Member of the House of Representatives ( Austria )
  • Member of Parliament (Galicia )
  • Born in 1859
  • Died in 1941
  • Man
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