Fedir Vovk
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Fedir Kindratovych Vovk(Ukrainian:Федір Кіндратович Вовк,1847–1918) also known asKhvedir Vovk(Ukrainian:Хведір Вовк[1][2]) was a Ukrainiananthropologist-archaeologist,the curator of theAlexander III MuseuminSt. Petersburg.[3][4]
Vovk graduated fromKyiv Universityin 1871. He was an active member of the KyivHromada.From 1887 to 1905 he lived inParisto escapetsaristpersecution; he earned a Ph.D. in 1900, and won the Godard Prize for his dissertation. In 1905 he returned to Russia, where, along with his position at the Alexander III Museum, he held a lecturership atSaint Petersburg University.He was granted a professorship at Kiev University in 1917 but died before he could take it up.[4]
Vovk's research concerned the anthropological study of theUkrainian people;in it he argued that the Ukrainians constituted a separate group ofSlavsmost closely related to theSouthern Slavs(Dinaric race).[4]
References[edit]
- ^"Народився Хведір Вовк, видатний український антрополог, етнограф, археолог, громадський діяч | Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського".nbuv.gov.ua.Retrieved2023-01-18.
- ^"Вовк Хведір Кіндратович".irbis-nbuv.gov.ua.Retrieved2023-01-18.
- ^Saunders, David (1988), "Britain and the Ukrainian Question (1912-1920)",The English Historical Review,103(406): 40–68,doi:10.1093/ehr/ciii.ccccvi.40.
- ^abcMushynka, Mykola (1993),"Fedir Vovk",in Husar Struk, Danylo (ed.),Encyclopedia of Ukraine,vol. 5, University of Toronto Press,retrieved2009-10-23.
Further reading[edit]
- Antonovych, Marko (1997),Fedir Kindratovych Vovk, 1847-1918: memoirs, studies, bibliography; in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth,Sources of Modern History of the Ukraine (in Ukrainian), vol. 4, New York: Ukrainian Academy of Arts & Sciences,ISBN978-0-916381-11-0.
- Vovk, Galina (1929),Bibliografija prać Chvedora Vovka 1847-1918,Ukraïnśka Bibliografija, vol. 3.
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