Anthony Petrushevych ( uk, Петруше́вич Анто́ній Степа́нович; January 18, 1821 – September 23, 1913) was a Ukrainian historian, linguist, researcher of the history of Galicia, a priest of the UGCC.

Biography

He was born in the village Dobriany, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,

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in the family of local pastor UGCC of Stephan Petrushevych (1772-1850). (Now – Dobriany, Stryi Raion). He studied in

Stryi Stryi ( uk, Стрий, ; pl, Stryj) is a city located on the left bank of the river Stryi in Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine 65 km to the south of Lviv (in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains). It serves as the administrative cen ...

, in the Lviv University (graduated 1845) and in the Greek-Catholic theological seminary. From 1851 to 1858 he was an adviser to the consistory, was the personal secretary of Metropolitan Michael Levitsky. He was a member of the

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(1861-1877) and of the Austrian Parliament (1873-1878). He died in

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at the age of 92 years and he was buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery.

Scientific research

The subject of the first research of Petrushevych had a history of the church in Galicia. Later – Slavic philology,

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, the study of archaeological remains and archival rarities. His, total 120, scientific papers related to the history of Galicia in the different eras. In the discussion about the original conception of August Belovsky about the existence of two Galichs - one of which was to be the center of Galician kingdom, which was located on the territory of present-day Slovakia (11th-12th centuries), and the other - the center of Galician principality on the Carpathian region (the middle of the 12th to 13th centuries). Petrushevych in his work “''Whether two Galic? – 1865''” convincingly showed that there was only one Halych, located on the

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, which was the capital of the principality of Halych in the 12th and 13th centuries. Ivan Franko expressed surprise at the works of Petrushevych – from national-patriotic, pro-Ukrainian in early works, up to a typical Russian.АНТОШКОВІ П. (АЗЪ ПОКОЙ)
Some of his important works were: * Russia and Poland - 1849 * Graven image, which opened in Zbruch - 1851 * About forged Bohemian monuments - 1879 * Volyn-Galician Chronicle, compiled by the end of the 13th century. 1205-1295. - 1871 * Summary Galician-Russian chronicle. 6 T. - 1874-1897.

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«ВІСНИК ПРИКАРПАТСЬКОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ ІСТОРІЯ Випуск 19 Видається з 1995 р. ІВАНО-ФРАНКІВСЬК Прикарпатський національний університет імені Василя Стефаника 2011 Вісник ...» Сторінка 33

1821 births 1913 deaths People from Stryi People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1873–1879) Members of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria Ukrainian writers Ukrainian philologists 19th-century Ukrainian historians Members of the Polish Academy of Learning Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery {{Ukraine-historian-stub

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