Lidiia Mikhailovna Hryhorchuk ( uk, Григорчук Лідія Михайлівна; 24 November 1926 – 14 January 2018) was a Ukrainian linguist, linguogeographer, dialectologist, paleographer, art critic, professor and a doctor of philology. She was a junior researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the

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from 1956 to 1972 before becoming a senior researcher between 1999 and 2002. Hryhorchuk was a professor of philology at the

University of Lviv 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 Na ...

, her alma mater, and at the

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. She was elected to the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1992 and was appointed a Laureate of the

State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology The State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology is an annual award given by the President of Ukraine for accomplishments in science and technology. It is given for one of four categories: outstanding scientific research in the humanities, soc ...

in 2006.

Biography

On 24 November 1926, Hryhorchuk was born in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

. She was a 1949 law graduate of the

. In 1950, Hryhorchuk was illegally imprisoned in the camps of Tayshet in the

Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizh ...

and later in Mordovia. She was successfully rehabilitated in 1956. From 1956 to 1972, Hryhorchuk worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the

. She went on to work as a researcher at the between 1973 and 1982. Hryhorchuk worked at the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv from 1988 to 1988. She also worked as a professor of philology at the University of Lviv from 1997 onwards and at the

between 1999 and 2000. From 2000 to 2002, she returned to the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine working as a senior researcher. As a professor, she educated masters and students through special courses in Ukrainian linguistic geography, paleography and epigraphy. Hryhorchuk was elected to the Shevchenko Scientific Society on 28 March 1992. She received the honorary award in 2005 and she was appointed a Laureate of the

in 2006. She was the writer of the book ''Adverb in modern Ukrainian literary language: Specifics of connections and meanings'' that was published in 1964. Hryhorchuk went on to work on ''Images of dialectal phenomena and tendencies in the second volume of the Atlas of the Ukrainian language'' that was published in 1970. In 1978, she authored the book ''Book fonts and dipints of works of Ukrainian art of 14 – 15 centuries'', published ''Inscriptions on works of Ukrainian painting and the font of Francisk Skorina's publications'' in 1980, ''Book fonts and dipints of works of Ukrainian art of the XIV-XV centuries'' in 1981, and ''Inscriptions on works of Ukrainian painting and the font of Francisk Skorina's publications'' in 1983. She was the editor and co-author of the second edition of the ''Atlas of the Ukrainian Language'' in 1988. In 1990, Hryhorchuk published the third edition of ''Thoughts on the emergence of "Ukrainian spelling"''. She also published ''New on the oldest examples of Ukrainian painting'' in 1991, ''Ukrainian dialect paroxytonic accent'' in 1993, ''Special Ukrainian dialect formation'' in 1995, ''Ukrainian dialect space in the assessment of linguistic geography'' in 2001, the monograph ''Linguistic and geographical study of the Ukrainian dialect space.'' in 2002, ''Uns erased Traces'' in 2008, and the monograph ''Relief of the Ukrainian language space (continuous studies)'' in 2013. She died on 14 January 2018 in Lviv.

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