Mykhailo Hrushevskyi

Mychajlo Serhijowytsch Hruschewskyj (Ukrainian Михайло Сергійович Грушевський, scientific transliteration Mychajlo Serhijovyč Hruševs'kyj, Russian Михаил Сергеевич Грушевский Mikhail Sergeyevich Gruschewski; * 17.jul / September 29 1866greg in Chelm, Russian Empire, .. † November 25, 1934 in Kislovodsk, USSR ) was a historian, politician and activist in the Ukrainian national movement.

Career

Hruschewskyj initially worked in Kiev, was Professor of East European History, de facto, in Ukrainian history in Lviv, and a central figure in the national movement.

Its historic main work is a very broad-based, written in Ukrainian History of Ukraine -Rus in ten volumes. His work appeared in 1898-1937 and continues the story up to the mid-17th century. The first volume was published in German; a revision of the entire work into English in progress ( 2005).

Hruschewskyj came in 1894 from Kiev to Lviv and gave the already existing Scientific Shevchenko society through his work the status of an internationally recognized academy. In 1905 he moved his work back to Kiev.

Hruschewskyj was since the 1930s in the Soviet Union as a bourgeois nationalist historians, only in 1989 that his reprints can be laid back. In the Soviet Ukraine had also initially been linked to the heritage of the pre-revolutionary historiography. So Mychajlo Hruschewskyj worked in the twenties of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev. At the same time an attempt was made to establish a Marxist historiography, which soon struck nationally - Russian tones. The Ukrainian history was thus denied their intrinsic value and a right to exist only permitted in the context of a history of Russia.

Hruschewskyj put the conception of a unified East Slavic ( Russian ) stream of history, the idea of separate development of the People's estates of the Russians and Ukrainians opposed.

In North America, created major research centers such as the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton. At Harvard, a Hruschewskyj Chair was established, emerged from the more eminent historian. In the Ukrainian historiography outside Ukraine, the North American research is quantitative and qualitative leader.

Mychajlo Hruschewskyj was in addition to his position as a historian at the same time the leader of the Ukrainian national movement at the beginning of the century and in 1917 the first president of the independent Ukrainian People's Republic. In his capacity as Chairman of the Central Council, he contributed to establish the Ukraine as a separate, autonomous state. So on January 22, 1918, the Supreme Council proclaimed the full independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

The Ukrainian Fifty - Hrywen bill shows a portrait Hruschewskyjs.

Writings (selection )

• The Ukrainian question in historical development. Published by the Federal liberation of the Ukraine, Vienna 1915 (online).
• Istoriia Ukrainy - Rusy. 10 volumes. 1904-1936.