The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (named after Ivan Franko, ) is a state-sponsored university in

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. Since 1940 the university is named after Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko. The university is the oldest institution of higher learning in continuous operation in present-day

, dating from 1661 when John II Casimir,

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and

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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.

History

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

The university was founded on 20 January 1661, when King and Grand Duke John II Casimir 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

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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 The Treaty of Hadiach (; ) was a treaty signed on 16 September 1658 in Hadiach (present-day Ukraine) between representatives of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ( representing Poland and representing Lithuania) and Zaporozhian Cossacks (repr ...

(1658), an Orthodox 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 Orthodox Brotherhood'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 5 February 1661. In 1758, King

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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

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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

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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

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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 regarded as ''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 2 November 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 4 July 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, Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki. 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,

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Szymon Askenazy Szymon Askenazy (December 24, 1865, Zawichost – June 22, 1935, Warsaw) was a Polish Jews, Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school. He was the first Polish representative at the League of Natio ...

, 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. ...

Benedykt Dybowski Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski (12 May 183331 January 1930) was a Polish naturalist and physician. Life Benedykt Dybowski was born in Adamaryni, within the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to Polish nobility. He was the brother of naturalis ...

, Marian Smoluchowski 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), a scholar of Ukrainian History, founder of the Ukrainian Historical School, and author of the ten-volume '' History of Ukraine-Rusʹ'', 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" (), 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 22 November 1919. In 1920, the university was rehoused by the Polish government in the building formerly used by the Sejm of the Land, 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 most important 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 Stefan Banach ( ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original ...

Hugo Steinhaus Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus ( , ; 14 January 1887 – 25 February 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 Univers ...

), logics (

), history and law (

), anthropology (

Jan Czekanowski Jan Czekanowski (October 8, 1882, Głuchów – July 20, 1965, Szczecin) was a Polish anthropologist, statistician, ethnographer, traveller, and linguist. He was one of the first persons to use quantitative methods in linguistics. Czekanowski p ...

), and geography ( Eugeniusz Romer). 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 incunables, 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 "

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" 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. Polish national-democrats also strove to implement a numerus clausus for Jews. During the 1920-30s, Polish national-democratic students chased local Jews and beat Jewish students, so that the university finally allow installment of ghetto benches for Jewish students.

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 18 October, however, the Polish rector, Professor Roman Longchamps de Bérier, was dismissed and replaced by , a Ukrainian historian transferred from the Institute of Ukrainian History in

, grandfather of Ukrainian journalist and dissident Valeriy Marchenko. His role was to Ukrainize and Sovietize the university. At the beginning of January 1940, the official name of the university was changed to ''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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, as well as Ukrainian and Soviet literature, history, and geography. This was accompanied by the closure of departments seen as related to religion, free-market economics, capitalism, or

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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

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professor, Kazimierz Bartel. 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

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), 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 the Polish academics from the University of Jan Kazimierz relocated to Wrocław (former Breslau), where they filled 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

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, a renowned scholar in the field of theoretical physics, was 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, and 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 Physical and

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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 Alecu Russo State University of 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,

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, and France. In 2016, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv held 5 international

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s. In 2016, active international cooperation was established with foreign partners. The university has conducted bilateral research with the

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(Austria),

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(

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), the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation, and the Hiroshima Institute of Technology (

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), funded by the

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. In recent years, researchers at the university have been conducting experiments funded by international organizations, including the

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(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),

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(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 * Marta Barandii (b. 1984), Ukrainian member activist and lawyer * Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865–1925), classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of the

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

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* Józef Białynia Chołodecki (1852–1934), historian of Lviv. * Marianna Dushar (b. 1974), anthropologist and food writer. * Ivan Franko (1856–1916), poet and linguist, reformer of the

Ukrainian language Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of t ...

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 Weigl and in the 1930s developed the concepts of "''Denkstil''" ("t ...

(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 who served in 1918 as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Poland. Early years Głąbiński was born on 25 Februa ...

(1862–1941) politician, professor and rector (1908–1909) of the university, lawyer and writer * Georgiy R. Gongadze (1969–2000), Georgian and Ukrainian journalist * Ludwik Hass (1918-2008), Polish historian and Trotskyist dissident * Mark Kac (1914–1984), mathematician, pioneer of modern

probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expre ...

* Wiktor Kemula (1902–1985), chemist * Yevhen Konovalets (1891–1938) leader of the

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN; ) was a Ukrainian nationalist organization established on February 2, 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, radical nationalist right-wing groups. ...

between 1929 and 1938 * Ihor Kobrin (1951–2023), film director * Emil Korytko (1813–1839), Polish philologist and ethnologist who worked in the

Slovene Lands The Slovene lands or Slovenian lands ( or in short ) is the historical denomination for the territories in Central and Southern Europe where people primarily spoke Slovene. The Slovene lands were part of the Illyrian provinces, the Austrian Empi ...

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

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Tadeusz Kotarbiński Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński (; 31 March 1886 – 3 October 1981) was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist. A pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, he was one of the most representative figures of the Lwów–Warsaw School, and a member of th ...

(1881–1981), philosopher, mathematician, logician *

Hersch Lauterpacht Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897 – 8 May 1960) was a British international lawyer, human rights activist, and judge at the International Court of Justice. Biography Hersch Lauterpacht was born on 16 August 1897 to a Jewish family in ...

(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 Pinhas Lavon (; 12 July 190424 January 1976) was an Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair. Early life Lavon was born Pinhas Lubianiker in the small city of Kopychyntsi in the Galicia region of Austria ...

(1904–1976), Israeli politician *

Raphael Lemkin Raphael Lemkin (; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer who is known for coining the term "genocide" and for campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention, which legally defines the act. Following the German invasion of Poland ...

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

genocide Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...

", an author of the United Nations' Convention on Genocide * Mariya Lyudkevych (b. 1948), writer and poet * 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 logi ...

(1878–1956), mathematician *

Stanisław Maczek Lieutenant General Stanisław Władysław 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 ...

(1892–1994), commander of the First Polish Armoured Division, the last Commander of the First Polish Army Corps under Allied Command *

Kazimierz Michałowski Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (14 December 1901, in Tarnopol – 1 January 1981, in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, Art history, art historian, member of the Polska Akademia Nauk, Polish Academy of Sciences, profe ...

(1901–1981), archeologist and Egyptologist * Semyon Mogilevich (1946–), economist and mafia boss * Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937), prominent Ukrainian writer * Jan Parandowski (1895–1978), writer, essayist, and translator, expert on

classical antiquity Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural History of Europe, European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the inter ...

* Helena Polaczkówna (1881–1942), historian and archivist, war activist * Maria Polaczkówna (1878–1944), historian and archivist, war activist * Stepan Popel (1909–1987), Ukrainian chess player and linguist *

Maciej Rataj Maciej Rataj (19 February 1884 – 21 June 1940) was a Polish politician, speaker of the Polish Parliament and deputy President of the Republic of Poland, and writer. Biography Born in the village of Lviv Raion, Chłopy, near Lwów (now Lviv, ...

(1884–1940), Polish politician,

acting president An acting president is a person who temporarily fills the role of a country's president when the incumbent president is unavailable (such as by illness or visiting abroad) or when the post is vacant (such as for death Death is the en ...

* Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910–1995), Ukrainian Canadian linguist, lexicographer, folklorist * Ivan L. Rudnytsky (1919–1984), Canadian historian of Ukraine,

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

Public intellectual An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and Human self-reflection, reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Coming from the wor ...

* Marta Rzewuska-Frankowska (1889–1954), Polish anthropologist, educator * Leon Reich (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 ...

(1909–1943), mathematician *

Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a History of the Jews in Poland, Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, Literary criticism, literary critic and Art education, art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish (language), Po ...

(1892–1942), novelist and painter *

Markiyan Shashkevych Markiian Semenovych 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 th ...

(1811–1843), Ukrainian poet * Zoia Skoropadenko (1978–), Ukrainian artist * Josyf Slipyj (1892–1984), head of the

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* Louis B. Sohn (1914–2006), international law scholar and advisor, helped create the

International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice (ICJ; , CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that Adjudication, adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on International law, internation ...

, advisor to United States State Department, chaired professor at

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and

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law schools in the United States * Leonid Stein (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 People's Republi ...

(1905–1996), Polish-Jewish journalist and writer * Irena Turkevycz-Martynec (1899–1983), Ukrainian Opera Soprano * Stefania Turkewich (1898–1977), Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist *

Stanislaw Ulam Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, Kherson Oblast, a coastal village in Ukraine * Stanislaus County, ...

(1909–1984) He participated in the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the ...

, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and suggested nuclear pulse propulsion. * Yuri Velykanovych (1910–1938), journalist, volunteer of the

International Brigades The International Brigades () were soldiers recruited and organized by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The International Bri ...

Aizik Isaakovich Vol'pert Aizik Isaakovich Vol'pert (; 5 June 1923 – January 2006) (the family name is also transliterated as Volpert or WolpertSee .) was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician and chemical engineer working in partial differential equations, functions of ...

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

epidemic typhus Epidemic typhus, also known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters where civil life is disrupted. Epidemic typhus is spread to people through contact wit ...

* Władysław Witwicki (1878–1948), psychologist, philosopher, translator and artist * Liubomyr Zubach (b. 1978), Ukrainian politician

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, Arctowski was educated in Belgium and France. He was one of the first humans to wint ...

(1871–1958) - oceanographer, Antarctica explorer *

(1866–1935) - historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Lwów-Warsaw School of History * Herman Auerbach (1901–1942) - mathematician *

(1892–1945) - mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the

Lwów School of Mathematics The Lwów school of mathematics () was a group of Polish mathematicians who worked in the interwar period in Lwów, Poland (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine). The mathematicians often met at the famous Scottish Café to discuss mathematical problems, ...

, 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 (for example, Inner product space#Definition, inner product, Norm (mathematics ...

(1858–1933) - historian of law and statehood * St. Józef Bilczewski (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. Academic career Bujak served as professor of the Jagiellonian U ...

(1921–1941) - historian *

Leon Chwistek Leon Chwistek (Kraków, Austria-Hungary, 13 June 1884 – Barvikha near Moscow, Russia, 20 August 1944) was a Polish logician, philosopher, mathematician, avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art and literary critic. Career and philosoph ...

(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 (1897–1941) - physician and surgeon *

(1862–1941) - politician, rector (1908–1909), lawyer and writer * Yakiv Holovatsky (1814–1888) - poet *

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky (; – 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century. Hrushevsky is ...

(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 (, ) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, conducts negotiations and concludes international treaties. ...

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

Bar, Ukraine Bar ( ; ; ) is a city located on the Riv River in Vinnytsia Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located in the historic region of Podolia. It served as the administrative center of the former Bar Raion until 2020. The city's estimated population is 1 ...

.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 (1902–1994) - historian * Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888–1920) - mathematician * Antoni Kalina (1846–1905) - ethnographer and ethnologist * Stefan Kaczmarz (1895-1939) - mathematician *

Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki (3 February 173514 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, ''Ermland'') and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland's leading Polish Enlightenment, Enlightenment ...

(1735–1801) - writer and poet,

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

, Bishop of Warmia and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland * Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978) - linguist * Karolina Lanckorońska (1898–2002) - historian and art historian, Polish

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

resistance fighter *

(1878–1956) -

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure of arg ...

and philosopher *

Ignác Martinovics Ignác Martinovics (, Игњат Мартиновић; 20 July 1755 – 20 May 1795) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian scholar, chemist, philosopher, writer, secret agent, Freemason and a leader of the Hungary, Hungarian Jacobin movement. He ...

(1755–1795) - physicist, Franciscan, Hungarian revolutionary *

Stanisław Mazur Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur (; 1 January 1905 – 5 November 1981) was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis ...

(1905–1981) - mathematician *

Jakub Karol Parnas Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas (; January 16, 1884 – January 29, 1949) was a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto F ...

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

International Astronomical Union The International Astronomical Union (IAU; , UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and developmen ...

, * 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 ...

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

set theory Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies Set (mathematics), 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 mathema ...

number theory Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects constructed from integers (for example ...

, theory of functions and

topology Topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a Mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformat ...

* Marian Smoluchowski (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 in a probability space, where the index of the family often has the interpretation of time. Stoc ...

, 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 cau ...

, 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 American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, which focuses on pre ...

, 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 determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone ...

* Aleksander Zawadzki (1798-1868) -

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

* Viktor Pynzenyk (born 1954) - economist and politician

Other

* Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825–1899), landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts *

Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fi ...

(1921–2006), satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer *

Ignacy Jan Paderewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski (; r 1859– 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the nation's Prime Minister of Poland, prime minister and foreign minister durin ...

(1860–1941) virtuoso pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, the third

Prime Minister of Poland A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only wa ...

* János Bolyai (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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