Dmytro Yavornytsky
Ukrainian academician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky[lower-alpha 1] (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Іва́нович Яворни́цький; November 6, 1855 – August 5, 1940) was a Ukrainian[2][3][4] academician, historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer.
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Dmytro Yavornytsky | |
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Дмитро Яворницький | |
Born | Dmytro Ivanovych Evarnytsky (Дмитро Іванович Еварницький) (1855-11-06)November 6, 1855 |
Died | August 5, 1940(1940-08-05) (aged 84) |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Other names | Dmytro Yavornytsky-Evarnytsky |
Citizenship | Russian Empire Ukrainian People's Republic Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Kharkiv University |
Known for | his research for the Zaporozhian Sich |
Spouse | Varvara Kokina[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Imperial Moscow University |
Academic advisors | Alexander Potebnja Mykola Sumtsov Mykola Kostomarov |
Notable students | Kost Huslystyi [uk] |
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Yavornytsky was a member of Moscow Archaeological Society [ru; uk; fr] (from 1885), of All-Russian Archaeological Society (from 1886) and an academician of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (from 1929).
He was recognised as one of the most prominent researchers of the Zaporozhian Cossacks from the time of the Cossack Hetmanate, and the author of their first general history. In recognition of his many contributions to the preservation of Zaporozhian Host history and culture, he is widely known in historiography as "the father of the Zaporozhians".