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Josef Zastyretz

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Josef Zastyretz
Йосип Застирець
Born
Yosyp Yakovych Zastyrets

(1873-08-15)15 August 1873
khutir of Romantsi, near Koniushkiv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died15 January 1943(1943-01-15) (aged 69)
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materLviv Theological Seminary, Lviv University
The grave of Josef Zastyretz at the Lychakiv Cemetery

Josef Zastyretz (Ukrainian: Йосип Якович Застирець, romanizedYosyp Yakovych Zastyrets; 15 August 1873 – 15 January 1943) is a Ukrainian historian, priest, writer. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy Science degree in 1914.[1]

Biography

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Yosyp Zastyrets was born on 15 August 1873 in the khutir of Romantsi, near Koniushkiv, now Brody urban hromada of the Zolochiv Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine.[1]

He studied at the Brody Gymnasium, Lviv Theological Seminary, and Lviv University. In 1898 he was ordained a priest.[1]

In 1900–1914, he worked as a catechist, teacher of history, German, and Ukrainian at Berezhany, Lviv (academic and Polish), and Ternopil gymnasiums. In Lviv, he was the head of the Prosvita reading room and the Ridna Shkola [uk] circle.[1]

In Vienna, he initiated the installation of a memorial plaque on the house where Panteleimon Kulish and Ivan Puluj lived and translated the Bible into Ukrainian.[1]

He founded the Princess Yaroslavna Women's Society in Ternopil, which in 1910 republished the collection Rusalka Dnistrova [uk] on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Markiian Shashkevych's birth.[1][2]

In November 1915, the Viennese professor, Doctor of Philosophy Josef Zastyretz, nominated Ivan Franko for the Nobel Prize.[3][4]

He died on 15 January 1943 in Lviv,[1] where he was buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Застирець Йосип Якович / М. М. Комариця // Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ. – К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2010.
  2. ^ (in Ukrainian) Мазурак Я., Пиндус Б., Застирець Йосип // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2004, V. 1: А—Й, S. 626. — ISBN 966-528-197-6.
  3. ^ a b Малик Я. Застирець Йосип Якович // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України. — К. : Наукова думка, 2005. — Т. 3 : Е — Й. — S. 285. — ISBN 966-00-0610-1.
  4. ^ "Нобелівська премія тікає від України". Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2012-10-04.