Oleksander Ohonovsky ( uk, Огоновський Олександр Михайлович; March 17, 1848 – February 10, 1891) was a lawyer, legal scholar, and civic leader in

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

. Oleksander Ohonovsky was born in Bukachivtsi,

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county,

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. After graduating from

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University (LL D, 1871), he practiced law and, from 1878, taught law at

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. He was the first law professor to lecture in Ukrainian at the university, and he made an important contribution to the development of Ukrainian legal terminology, even though he did not manage to publish the Ukrainian legal dictionary he compiled. In 1886, he was appointed dean of the law faculty. Ohonovsky was a specialist in Austrian civil law and wrote the monographs ''Die Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag nach dem österreichischen Rechte'' (1877) and ''Österreichisches Ehengüterrecht'' (1880). He was active in Ukrainian civic organizations and helped to found a number of societies, such as Druzhnyi Lykhvar,

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societies, the

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, and the Ridna Shkola society. He was editor of the political journal ''Pravda'' (1872–1876) and cofounder and first president of the People's Council.

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External links

Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Ohonovsky, Oleksander
Lawyers from Austria-Hungary Ukrainian nobility 1848 births 1891 deaths Politicians from Austria-Hungary Members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria {{Ukraine-bio-stub