Between history and politics: the image of Mykhailo Hrushevsky in German Slavic studies of the first third of the 20th century

Vitalii Telvak; Viktoria Telvak; Bohdan Yanyshyn

doi:10.18778/1644-857X.20.02.05

Authors

Vitalii Telvak Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-968X
Viktoria Telvak Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-743X
Bohdan Yanyshyn National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-2530

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1644-857X.20.02.05

Keywords:

Hrushevsky, German Slavic studies, historiography, perception, journalism

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the reception of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s academic achievements in German science and journalism during the first third of the 20th century, in the years of World War I and the interwar period. The authors emphasize that German scientists were generally honest about the achievements and activity of the Ukrainian historian. Despite their scepticism towards M. Hrushevsky’s Anti-Normanism ideology, they followed closely the emergence of his major scientific works. In the reception of the Ukrainian historian’s work, the academic motivation definitely dominated over the political one, although the latter indirectly appeared in many statements devoted to him. The authors prove the vivid presence of Hrushevsky’s thought in the German Slavic discourse of the period.

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Author Biographies

Vitalii Telvak, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Prof. dr hab. Vitalii Telvak – employed as a professor at Department of World History and Special Historical Disciplines in Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University. A member of the editorial board of scientific journals: “Teoria @ Historia” (Poznan, Poland), “Rocznik Historii Prasy Polskiej” (Krakow, Poland), “Rocznik Chełmski” (Chelm, Poland), “Scriptorium nostrum” (Cherson, Ukraine), “Problems of the humanities: a collection of scientific works of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University. History Series” (Drogobych, Ukraine), “East European Historical Bulletin” (Drogobych, Ukraine), “Ukrainian peasant” (Cherkasy, Ukraine).

Research interests: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish history of historiography of the mid-19th century until the first decades of the 20th century, theory and methodology of historical epistemology, Hrushevsky Studies.
Viktoria Telvak, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Assist. prof. Viktoria Telvak – employed as an assistant professor at Department of World History and Special Historical Disciplines in Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University. PhD (History) (2002), docent (2006). A member of the editorial board of scientific journals: “Scientific notes of Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University. Series: History”, “Scientific Bulletin of Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. History”, “Scientific collection ‘Current issues of the humanities: an interuniversity collection of scientific works of young scientists of Drohobych State Pedagogical University named after Ivan Franko’”.

Research interests: Ukrainian history of historiography of the mid-19th century until the first decades of the 20th century, Local Lore Studies, Hrushevsky Studies.
Bohdan Yanyshyn, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Senior research fellow Bohdan Yanyshyn – employed as a Senior Research Fellow at Department of the History of Ukraine of the 19th – early 20th centuries in the Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. PhD (History) (2003), senior research fellow (2009). A member of the editorial board of scientific journals: “Local Lore Studies”, “Scientific collection ‘Current issues of the humanities: an interuniversity collection of scientific works of young scientists of Drohobych State Pedagogical University named after Ivan Franko’”.

Research interests: history of Ukrainian lands in the Austro-Hungarian empire, Local Lore Studies, Ukrainian and Polish history of historiography of the mid-19th century until the first decades of the 20th century.

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