The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка, Lvivskyi natsionalnyi universitet imeni Ivana Franka), is the oldest institution of higher learning in present-day

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dating from 1661 when John II Casimir,

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, granted it its first royal charter. Over the centuries, it has undergone various transformations, suspensions, and name changes that have reflected the geopolitical complexities of this part of

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. The present institution can be dated to 1940. It is located in the historic city of

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History

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

The university was founded on January 20, 1661, when King John II Casimir of Poland granted a charter to the city's

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Collegium, founded in 1608, giving it "the honor of an academy and the title of a university". In 1589, the Jesuits had tried to found a university earlier, but did not succeed. Establishing another seat of learning in the Kingdom of Poland was seen as a threat by the authorities of

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, which did not want a rival and stymied the Jesuits' plans for the following years. According to the Treaty of Hadiach (1658), an

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Ruthenian academy was to be created in

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and another one in an unspecified location. The Jesuits suspected that it would be established in Lwów/Lviv on the foundations of the

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's school, and used this as a pretext for obtaining a royal mandate that elevated their college to the status of an academy (no city could have two academies). King John II Casimir was a supporter of the Jesuits and his stance was crucial. The original royal charter was subsequently confirmed by another decree issued in

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on February 5, 1661. In 1758, King Augustus III issued a decree, which described the Collegium as an academy, equal in fact status to the

, with two faculties, those of

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and

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Austrian rule

In 1772, the city of Lwów was annexed by

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(see:

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). Its German name was

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and hence that of the university. In 1773 the Suppression of the Society of Jesus by Rome ( Dominus ac Redemptor) was soon followed by the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which meant that the university was excluded from the Commission of National Education reform. It was renamed ''Theresianum'' by the Austrians, i.e. a State Academy. On 21 October 1784, the Austrian Emperor Joseph II signed an act of foundation of a secular university. He began to Germanise the institution by bringing German-speaking professors from various parts of the empire. The university now had four faculties. To theology and philosophy were added those of law and

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. Latin was the official language of the university, with Polish and German as auxiliary. Literary Slaveno-Rusyn (Ruthenian/Ukrainian) of the period had been used in the Studium Ruthenium (1787–1809), a special institute of the university for educating candidates for the Uniate (Greek-Catholic) priesthood. In 1805, the university was closed, as Austria, then involved in the

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, did not have sufficient funds to support it. Instead, it operated as a high school. The university was reopened in 1817. Officially Vienna described it as an "act of mercy", but the actual reasons were different. The Austrian government was aware of the pro-Polish stance of the Russian Emperor

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and the Austrians wanted to challenge it. However, the quality of the university's education was not considered high. Latin was replaced by German and most professors were mediocre. The few good ones regarded their stay in Lemberg as a springboard to other centres. In 1848, when the pan-European revolution reached Lemberg (see:

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), students of the university created two organizations: "The Academic Legion" and "the Academic Committee" both of which demanded that the university be Polonized. The government in Vienna answered with force, and on November 2, 1848, the centre of the city was shelled by the troops led by General Hammerstein striking the buildings of the university, especially its library. A curfew was called and the university was temporarily closed. Major demand for Ukrainians was the education of teachers and promotion of Ukrainian culture through Ukrainian courses at the university and to this end, a committee for the Defense of Ukrainian Education was created.Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Martha. Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884-1939. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1988. It was reopened in January 1850, with only limited autonomy. After a few years the Austrians relented and on July 4, 1871 Vienna declared Polish and Ruthenian (Ukrainian) as the official languages at the university.Strauss, Johann. "Language and power in the late Ottoman Empire" (Chapter 7). In: Murphey, Rhoads (editor). ''Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean: Recording the Imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Rule'' (Volume 18 of Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies). Routledge, 7 July 2016. , 9781317118442.

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Eight years later this was changed. The Austrian authorities declared Polish as the main teaching medium with Ruthenian and German as auxiliary. Examinations in the two latter languages were possible as long as the professors used them. This move created unrest among the Ruthenians (Ukrainians), who were demanding equal rights. In 1908, a Ruthenian student of the philosophy faculty, Miroslaw Siczynski, had assassinated the Polish governor of Galicia, . Meanwhile, the University of Lemberg thrived, being one of two Polish language universities in Galicia, the other one was the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Its professors were famous across Europe, with such renowned names as Wladyslaw Abraham, Oswald Balzer,

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, Stanislaw Zakrzewski, Zygmunt Janiszewski,

Kazimierz Twardowski Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski (20 October 1866 – 11 February 1938) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, logician, and rector of the Lwów University. He was initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory. Lif ...

, Benedykt Dybowski,

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and Ludwik Rydygier. In the 1870s, Ivan Franko studied at Lemberg University. He entered world history as a well-known Ukrainian scholar, public figure, writer, and translator. In 1894, the newly founded Chair of World History and the History of Eastern Europe was headed by Professor Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1866–1934), an outstanding scholar of Ukrainian History, founder of the Ukrainian Historical School, and author of the ten-volume "History of Ukraine-Rus'", hundreds of works on History, History of Literature, Historiography, and Source Studies. In 1904, a special summer course in Ukrainian studies was organized in Lviv, primarily for Eastern Ukrainian students. The number of students grew from 1,732 in 1897 to 3,582 in 1906. Poles made up around 75% of the students, Ukrainians 20%, other nationalities 5%. In mid-December 1910, Ukrainian women students at Lviv University established a Student Union's women's branch, their twenty members meeting regularly to discuss current affairs. In July 1912, they met with their Jewish counterpart branch to discuss the representation of women in the student body of the university.

Second Polish Republic

During the Interbellum period, the region was part of the

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and the university was known as "Jan Kazimierz University" ( pl, Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza), in honor of its founder, King John II Casimir Vasa. The decision to name the school after the king was taken by the government of Poland on November 22, 1919. In 1920, the university was rehoused by the Polish government in the building formerly used by the

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, which has since been the university's main location. Its first rector during the Second Polish Republic was the famous poet, Jan Kasprowicz. Lwów was the second strongest academic center in inter-war Poland. The Jan Kazimierz University was the third biggest university in the country after the

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and the

. It was one of the most influential scholarly institutions of the Second Polish Republic, notable for its schools of mathematics ( Stefan Banach,

Hugo Steinhaus Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus ( ; ; January 14, 1887 – February 25, 1972) was a Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz Unive ...

), logics (

), history and law ( Oswald Balzer), anthropology (

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), and geography (

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). The university's library acquired, among others, the collection of and 1,300 old Polish books from the 16th and 17th century, previously belonging to Józef Koziebrodzki. By September 1939, it expanded to 420,000 volumes, including 1,300

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, 3,000 diplomas and

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, and possessed 14,000

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items. In 1924 the Philosophy Faculty was divided into

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and Mathematics and Biology Departments, thus there were now five faculties. In the 1934/35 academic year, the breakdown of the student body was as follows: * Theology – 222 students * Law – 2,978 students * Medicine – 638 students (together with the Pharmaceutical Section, which had 263 students) * Humanities – 892 students * Mathematics and Biology – 870 students Altogether, during the academic year 1934/35, there were 5900 students at the university, consisting by religious observance of: * 3793 Roman Catholics (64.3%) * 1211 Jews (20.5%) * 739 Ukrainian Greek-Catholics (12.5%) * 72 Orthodox (1.2%) * 67 Protestants (1.1%) Ukrainian professors were required to take a formal oath of allegiance to Poland; most of them refused and left the university in the early 1920s. The principle of " Numerus clausus" had been introduced after which Ukrainian applicants were discriminated against – Ukrainian applications were capped at 15% of the intake, whereas Poles enjoyed a 50% quota at the time.Brief history of L'viv University

World War II

After the German

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and the accompanying Soviet invasion in September 1939, the

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administration permitted classes to continue. Initially, the school worked in the pre-war Polish system. On October 18, however, the Polish rector, Professor Roman Longchamps de Bérier, was dismissed and replaced by , a Ukrainian historian transferred from the

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, grandfather of Ukrainian journalist and dissident

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. Marchenko was tasked with Ukrainization and

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of the university. On January 8, 1940, the university was renamed ''Ivan Franko Lviv State University''. Ukrainian was introduced as the language of instruction. Polish professors and administrative assistants were increasingly fired and replaced by cadres specializing in

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, political economics, as well as

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and Soviet literature, history, and geography. This was accompanied by the closure of departments seen as related to religion, free-market economics, capitalism, or the West in general. All academics specializing in Polish geography, literature, and history were dismissed. Marchenko was released from his post in Spring 1940 and arrested in June 1941. From 1939 to 1941, the Soviets killed 17 and imprisoned 37 academics from the University of Jan Kazimierz. After Lviv was occupied by the Nazi Germany in June 1941, the Germans closed the University of Ivan Franko and killed over 20 Polish professors (as well as members of their households and guests, increasing the total number of victims to above forty). The victims included lecturers from the University of Lviv and other local academic institutions. Among the killed was the last rector of the University of Jan Kazimierz, Roman Longchamps de Berier, his three sons, and the former Polish prime minister and a polytechnic professor,

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. The underground University of Jan Kazimierz was established in Autumn 1941. In the summer of 1944, the advancing

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, assisted by the Polish

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forces (locally implementing Operation Tempest), pushed the

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out of Lviv. and the university reopened. Due to post-war border changes, the Polish population of the city was expelled and most of Polish academics from the University of Jan Kazimierz relocated to Wrocław (former Breslau), where they took up positions in the newly established Polish institutions of higher learning. The buildings of the university had survived the war undestroyed, however, 80% of its pre-war student and academic body was gone. The traditions of Jan Kazimierz University have been duplicated at the

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, which replaced the pre-war University of Breslau after the German inhabitants of that city had been expelled following Stalin's establishing Germany's eastern border farther to the west.

Ukrainian SSR

In 1964, a monument dedicated to Ivan Franko was built in front of the university.

Independent Ukraine

The proclamation of the independence of Ukraine in 1991 brought about radical changes in every sphere of university life. Professor, Doctor

Ivan Vakarchuk Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk ( uk, Іван Олександрович Вакарчук; 6 March 1947 – 4 April 2020) was a Soviet-Ukrainian physicist, politician and social activist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was ...

, a renowned scholar in the field of theoretical physics, had been rector of the university from 1990 to 2013. Meeting the requirements arising in recent years new faculties and departments have been set up: the Faculty of International Relations and the Faculty of Philosophy (1992), the Faculty of Pre-Entrance University Preparation (1997), the Chair of Translation Studies and Comparative Linguistics (1998). Since 1997 the following new units have come into existence within the teaching and research framework of the university: the Law College, The Humanities Centre, The Institute of Literature Studies, The Italian Language and Culture Resource Centre. The teaching staff of the university has increased amounting to 981, with scholarly degrees awarded to over two-thirds of the entire teaching staff. There are over one hundred laboratories and working units as well as the Computing Centre functioning here. The Zoological, Geological, Mineralogical Museums together with those of Numismatics, Sphragistics, and Archeology are stimulating the interests of students.

Faculties

*Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics *Faculty of International Relations *Faculty of Biology *Faculty of Journalism *Faculty of Chemistry *Faculty of Law *Faculty of Economics *Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics *Faculty of Electronics *Faculty of Philology *Faculty of Foreign Languages *Faculty of Philosophy *Faculty of Geography *Faculty of Physics *Faculty of Geology *Faculty of Preuniversity Training *Faculty of History *Department of Pedagogy *Department of Law

Research divisions and facilities

*Scientific Research Department *Zoological museum *University Library *Journal of Physical Studies *The Institute of Archaeology *Ukrainian journal of computational linguistics *Media Ecology Institute *Modern Ukraine *Institute for Historical Research *Regional Agency for Sustainable Development *Botanical Garden *NATO Winter Academy in Lviv *Scientific technical & educational center of low temperature studies

University management

* Rector Volodymyr Melnyk, Doctor of

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, Corresponding Member of the

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; * First Vice-Rector Andriy Gukalyuk, Candidate of

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, Associate Professor; * Vice-Rector for Research Roman Hladyshevsky, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor; * Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work and social issues and development Volodymyr Kachmar, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor; * Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work and informatization Vitaliy Kukharsky, Candidate of

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and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor; * Vice-rector for administrative and economic work Vasyl Kurlyak, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor.

International cooperation

During 2016–2017, the university signed 15 cooperation agreements and two double degree agreements, two agreements were extended. In total, 147 agreements have been signed with higher education institutions from 38 countries. The university is involved in signing the

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. In 2000, the university became a co-founder of the European College of Polish and Ukrainian Universities (

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). Agreements with

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( Bălți,

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) and the Krakow Pedagogical Academy (Poland) have been extended. Students of the faculty of Geography, History and the faculty of International Relations undergo internships in Poland,

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, the

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, and

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. Employees of the faculty of Mechanics, Mathematics, Philology, Chemistry, Faculty of International Relations and Applied Mathematics and Informatics worked in higher education institutions in Poland,

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, and Austria on a contract basis. Many graduates continue their studies in higher education institutions in the

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, Poland, Germany, Austria, Britain, and France. In 2016, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv held 5 international summer schools. In 2016, active international cooperation was established with foreign partners. The university has conducted bilateral research with the

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(Austria), Kaunas University of Technology (

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), the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation, and the

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), funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. In recent years, researchers at the university have been conducting experiments funded by international organizations, including the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Germany),

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(USA), Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (USA), and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, International Center for Diffraction Data (USA), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA), Trust Educational Foundation for Tree Research (USA), ''Material. Phases. Data. System'' company (Switzerland). An agreement has been signed with CrossRef, which allows the DOI to be assigned to university publications. The university, with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, has a national contact point of the EU Framework Program "Horizon 2020" in the thematic areas "Future and latest technologies" and "Inclusive, innovative and smart society".

Notable alumni

* Roman Aftanazy (1914–2004), historian of culture, librarian, heritage rescuer * Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), philosopher, mathematician and logician, a pioneer of categorial grammar *

Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865 – 1925) was a Polish classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of Jagiellonian University. Bieńkowski studied classical philology and history at the University of Lwów and University of Berlin (under ...

(1865–1925), classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of the

Julia Brystiger Julia Brystiger (née Prajs, born 25 November 1902, in Stryj – died 9 November 1975, in Warsaw) was a Polish communist activist and member of the security apparatus in Stalinist Poland. She was also known as ''Julia Brystygier'', ''Bristiger' ...

(1902–1975), political militant, member of the security apparatus of the

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Józef Białynia Chołodecki Józef Dominik "Kresowiec" Bartłomiej Chołodecki (15 August 1852 – 30 January 1934) was a Polish historian. Biography Chołodecki was born in 1852 in in the Galicia (Central Europe), Galician region of the then Austro-Hungarian empire, clo ...

(1852–1934), historian of Lviv. *

Marianna Dushar Marianna Dushar (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Маріанна Душар) is a Ukrainian anthropologist and food writer, who specialises in the culinary heritage of the Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galician region in eastern Europe. Biography ...

, anthropologist and food writer. * Ivan Franko (1856–1916), poet and linguist, reformer of the

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Ludwik Fleck Ludwik Fleck (11 July 1896 – 5 June 1961) was a Polish Jewish and Israeli physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf WeiglT. Tansey (2014) ''Typhus and tyranny'', ''Nature'' 511(7509), 291 ...

(1896–1961), medical doctor and biologist who developed in the 1930s the concept of thought collectives *

Stanisław Głąbiński Stanisław Głąbiński (25 February 1862 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish politician, academic, lawyer and writer. Early years Głąbiński was born on 25 February 1862 in Skole, in the Stryj district, Eastern Galicia, in what was then the A ...

(1862–1941) politician, professor and rector (1908–1909) of the university, lawyer and writer *

Georgiy R. Gongadze Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze ka, გიორგი რუსლანის ძე ღონღაძე, Giorgi Ruslanis dze Ghonghadze (21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000) was a Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidn ...

(1969–2000),

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and Ukrainian journalist * Mark Kac (1914–1984), mathematician, pioneer of modern

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* Yevhen Konovalets (1891–1938) leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists between 1929 and 1938. * Emil Korytko (1813–1839), Polish philologist and ethnologist who worked in the

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* Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), scientist and politician, member of the

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* Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1881–1981), philosopher, mathematician, logician * Hersch Lauterpacht (1897–1960), lawyer and Developer of the legal concept of "Crimes Against Humanity" in the Nuremberg Trials and writer of "An International Bill of the Rights of Man" * Pinhas Lavon (1904–1976), Israeli politician *

Raphael Lemkin Raphael Lemkin ( pl, Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer who is best known for coining the term ''genocide'' and initiating the Genocide Convention, an interest spurred on after learning about the Armenian genocid ...

(1900–1959), lawyer who introduced the term "

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...

", an author of the United Nations' Convention on Genocide * Antoni Łomnicki (1881–1941), mathematician *

Jan Łukasiewicz Jan Łukasiewicz (; 21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He ...

(1878–1956), mathematician *

Stanisław Maczek Lieutenant General Stanisław Maczek (; 31 March 1892 – 11 December 1994) was a Polish tank commander of World War II, whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in the destructio ...

(1892–1994), commander of the First Polish Armoured Division, the last Commander of the First Polish Army Corps under Allied Command * Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archeologist and Egyptologist *

Semyon Mogilevich Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich ( uk, Семен Юдкович Могилевич, Semén Yúdkovych Mohylévych ; born June 30, 1946) is a Ukrainian-born Russian organized crime boss. He quickly built a highly structured criminal organization, in ...

(1946–), economist and mafia boss *

Bohdan Ihor Antonych Bohdan Ihor Antonych ( uk, Богдан-Ігор Антонич; 5 October 1909, in Nowica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Nowica – 6 July 1937, in Lviv) was a 20th-century Ukrainian poet. In 1934 Antonych received third prize honours from the Ivan ...

(1909–1937), prominent Ukrainian writer *

Jan Parandowski __NOTOC__ Jan Parandowski (11 May 1895 – 26 September 1978) was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish International PEN, PEN Club between ...

(1895–1978), writer, essayist, and translator, expert on

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Stepan Popel Stepan (Stefan, Stephan, Stephen) Popel (Popiel) (born 15 August 1909, Komarniki, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) – died 27 December 1987, Fargo, North Dakota, USA) was a multiple chess champion of Lviv, Paris and eventually, of th ...

(1909–1987), Ukrainian chess player and linguist *

Maciej Rataj Maciej Rataj (19 February 1884 – 21 June 1940) was a Polish politician and writer. Biography Born in the village of Chłopy, near Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), on 19 February 1884, he attended a gymnasium in Lwów and studied classical lingu ...

(1884–1940), Polish politician, acting president *

Jaroslav Rudnyckyj Jaroslav Bohdan Antonovych Rudnyckyj ( uk, Яросла́в-Богда́н Рудни́цький, ; November 18, 1910 – October 19, 1995) was a Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics, folkl ...

(1910–1995), Ukrainian Canadian linguist, lexicographer, folklorist *

Ivan L. Rudnytsky Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky ( ua, Іван Лисяк Рудницький, 27 October 1919 – 25 April 1984) was a historian of Ukrainian socio-political thought, political scientist and scholar publicist. He significantly influenced Ukrainian hi ...

(1919–1984), Canadian historian of Ukraine, political scientist, Public intellectual *

Leon Reich Leon Reich (July 11, 1879 – December 1, 1929) was a Polish Zionist leader, lawyer and politician. Life Reich was born on July 11, 1879 in Drohobych, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. His parents were wealthy merchants and Orthodox Jews. He attended a h ...

(1879–1929), lawyer and member of the Sejm of Poland *

Józef Schreier Józef Schreier (; 18 February 1909, Drohobycz, Austria-Hungary – April 1943, Drohobycz, Occupied Poland) was a Polish mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, group theory and combinatorics. He was a member o ...

(1909–1943), mathematician * Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), novelist and painter *

Markiyan Shashkevych Markiyan Shashkevych (November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – June 7, 1843 in Novosilky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of th ...

(1811–1843), Ukrainian poet *

Zoia Skoropadenko Zoia Skoropadenko is a Ukrainian contemporary mixed-media artist, based in Monaco, known for her paintings, sculptures and sketching, and for being wrongfully suspected as a spy... She counts Michelangelo, Magritte, Corot, Matisse and Petrov Vo ...

(1978–), Ukrainian artist * Josyf Slipyj (1892–1984), head of the

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Louis B. Sohn Louis Bruno Sohn (1 March 1914 – 7 June 2006) was an Austrian–American legal scholar. Biography Sohn was born in Lemberg, in what was then Austria-Hungary, later Poland and now Ukraine. He earned his first law degree at John Casimir Universi ...

(1914–2006), international law scholar and advisor, helped create the

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, advisor to United States State Department, chaired professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

and

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

law schools in the United States *

Leonid Stein Leonid Zakharovich Stein (; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players during that era. ...

(1934–1973), grandmaster and Soviet Chess Champion *

(1887–1982), mathematician, educator, and humanist *

Julian Stryjkowski Julian Stryjkowski (born Pesach Stark; April 27, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a Polish journalist and writer, known for his social prose and radical leftist leanings. He was considered one of the best Polish-Jewish writers of the communist era. S ...

(1905–1996), Polish-Jewish journalist and writer *

Irena Turkevycz-Martynec Irena Turkevycz-Martynec (1899-1983) was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and came to Canada, to Winnipeg, in 1949. She was a Prima donna in the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and performed in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, an ...

(1899–1983), Ukrainian Opera Soprano *

Stefania Turkewich Stefania Turkewich-Lukianovych (25 April 1898 – 8 April 1977) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist, recognized as Ukraine's first woman composer. Her works were banned in Ukraine by Soviet authorities. Biography Childhood S ...

(1898–1977), Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist * Yuri Velykanovych (1910–1938), journalist, volunteer of the

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Aizik Isaakovich Vol'pert Aizik Isaakovich Vol'pert (russian: Айзик Исаакович Вольперт) (5 June 1923 – January 2006) (the family name is also transliterated as Volpert or WolpertSee .) was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician and chemical engineer w ...

(1923–2006), mathematician and chemical engineer * Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus *

Władysław Witwicki Władysław Witwicki (30 April 1878, Lubaczów – 21 December 1948, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Konstancin) was a Poles, Polish psychologist, philosopher, Translation, translator (mainly of Plato's works into Polish language, Polish), historian (of phi ...

(1878–1948), psychologist, philosopher, translator and artist

Notable professors

Henryk Arctowski Henryk Arctowski (15 July 1871 – 21 February 1958; ), born Henryk Artzt, was a Polish scientist and explorer. Living in exile for a large part of his life, he was one of the first persons to winter in Antarctica and became an internationally ...

(1871–1958) - oceanographer, Antarctica explorer *

(1866–1935) - historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Lwów-Warsaw School of History * Herman Auerbach (1901–1942) - mathematician * Stefan Banach (1892–1945) - mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the Lwów School of Mathematics, father of

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. Inner product space#Definition, inner product, Norm (mathematics)#Defini ...

* Oswald Balzer (1858–1933) - historian of law and statehood * St.

Józef Bilczewski Józef Bilczewski (26 April 1860 – 20 March 1923) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Lviv from 1900 until his death. He served as a theological and dogmatics professor in the Lviv college after himself having ...

(1860–1923) - archbishop of the city of Lwów of the Latins *

Franciszek Bujak Franciszek Bujak (16 August 1875, in Maszkienice near Brzesko – 21 March 1953, in Kraków) was a Polish academic and historian of economic, political and social history of Poland. He served as professor of the Jagiellonian University twice, in ...

(1921–1941) - historian * Leon Chwistek (1884–1944) - Avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician * Antoni Cieszyński (1882–1941) - physician, dentist and surgeon * Matija Čop (1797–1835) - Slovene philologist and literary theorist *

(1882–1965) - anthropologist, statistician and linguist *

Władysław Dobrzaniecki Władysław Dobrzaniecki (24 September 1897 in Zielinka near Borszczów – 4 July 1941 in Lemberg, District of Galicia) was a Polish physician and surgeon. Władysław was since 1936 head of the Saint Zofia Children Hospital in Lwów, and since ...

(1897–1941) - physician and surgeon *

(1862–1941) - politician, rector (1908–1909), lawyer and writer *

Yakiv Holovatsky Yakiv is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Yakiv Barabash (died 1658), Zaporozhian Cossack Otaman (1657–58) who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky *Yakiv Hodorozha (born 1993), Ukrainian former competitive figure skater *Yakiv Holo ...

(1814–1888) - poet *

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Грушевський, Chełm, – Kislovodsk, 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figure ...

(1866–1934) - historian, organizer of scholarship, leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, head of Ukraine's parliament, first

president of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

, who wrote an academic book titled: "Bar Starostvo: Historical Notes: XV-XVIII" about the history of

Bar, Ukraine Bar ( uk, Бар; pl, Bar; russian: Бар) is a town located on the Riv River in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Bar Raion (district), and is part of the historic region of Podolia. The ...

.Hrushevsky, M., Bar Starostvo: Historical Notes: XV-XVIII, St. Vladimir University Publishing House, Bol'shaya-Vasil'kovskaya, Building no. 29–31, Kiev, Ukraine, 1894; Lviv, Ukraine, , pp. 1 – 623, 1996. *

Stefan Inglot Stefan Inglot (b. June 10, 1902 in Albigowa near Łańcut, d. January 10, 1994 in Wrocław, Poland) was a Polish historian and a cooperative activist. He graduated from the Lwów University. At the same university he gained PhD in 1926 and passed ...

(1902–1994) - historian. * Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888–1920), mathematician, *

Antoni Kalina Antoni Kalina (1846–1905) was a Polish activist, ethnographer and ethnologist, and rector of the Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; germ ...

(1846–1905) - ethnographer and ethnologist. * Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801) - writer and poet,

senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

, Bishop of Warmia and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland * Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978) - linguist *

Karolina Lanckorońska Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (Polish pronunciation: a.rɔˈlʲi.na lant͡skɔˈrɔɲska11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, ...

(1898–2002) - historian and art historian, Polish

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

resistance fighter *

(1878-1956) - logician and philosopher * Ignác Martinovics (1755–1795) - physicist, Franciscan, Hungarian revolutionary * Stanisław Mazur (1905–1981) - mathematician * Jakub Karol Parnas (1884–1949) - (Russian: Яков Оскарович Парнас or Yakov Oskarovich Parnas). A Jewish-Polish–Soviet biochemist author of notable studies on carbohydrates metabolism in mammals. Glycolysis, a major metabolic mechanism, is universally named Embden-Meyerhoff-Parnas pathway after him. *

(1871–1954) - cartographer * Eugeniusz Rybka (1898–1988) - astronomer, deputy director of the

International Astronomical Union The International Astronomical Union (IAU; french: link=yes, Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is a nongovernmental organisation with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreac ...

, * Stanisław Ruziewicz (1881–1941) - mathematician *

Wacław Sierpiński Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and to ...

(1882–1969) - mathematician, known for contributions to

set theory Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies sets, which can be informally described as collections of objects. Although objects of any kind can be collected into a set, set theory, as a branch of mathematics, is mostly conce ...

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

, theory of functions and

topology In mathematics, topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformations, such ...

(1872–1917) - scientist, pioneer of statistical physics, creator the basis of the theory of

stochastic processes In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables. Stochastic processes are widely used as mathematical models of systems and phenomena that appe ...

, mountaineer *

(1887–1972), mathematician * Szczepan Szczeniowski (1898-1979) -

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

, author of numerous papers on cosmic rays, *

(1866–1938), philosopher and logician, head of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic * Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941) -

gynecologist Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined area ...

, writer, poet, art critic, translator of French literary classics and journalist * Rudolf Weigl (1883-1957) -

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and risk factor, determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decision ...

Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki, alias Kazik, Wacek, Bronek, One (; 16 December 1899 – 7 August 1964) was a Polish communist politician, first Chairman of the Council of State of the People's Republic of Poland, divisional general of the Polish Army ...

(1798-1868) - naturalist *

Viktor Pynzenyk Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk ( uk, Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник) (born 15 April 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance. He is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party. Pynzeny ...

(born 1954) - economist and politician

Other

* Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825–1899), landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts * Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer * Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941) virtuoso pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, the third Prime Minister of Poland *

János Bolyai János Bolyai (; 15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician, who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consisten ...

(1802–1860) The founder of noneuclidean (absolute) geometry. The highest figure of Hungarian mathematics worked at the University of Lviv from 1831 to 1832.

Notes

References

Literature

* ''Academia Militans. Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie'', red. Adam Redzik, Kraków 2015, ss. 1302. * Ludwik Finkel, Starzyński Stanisław, ''Historya Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego'', Lwów 1894. * Franciszek Jaworski, ''Uniwersytet Lwowski. Wspomnienie jubileuszowe'', Lwów 1912. * Adam Redzik, Wydział Prawa Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego w latach 1939–1946, Lublin 2006 * Adam Redzik, ''Prawo prywatne na Uniwersytecie Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie'', Warszawa 2009. * Józef Wołczański, ''Wydział Teologiczny Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza 1918–1939'', Kraków 2000. * ''Universitati Leopoliensi, Trecentesimum Quinquagesimum Anniversarium Suae Fundationis Celebranti. In Memoriam''. Praca zbiorowa. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Kraków 2011,

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