Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s contribution to the organization of Ukrainian science
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31548/philolog0(248).2016.094%20-%20103
Abstract
The article analyzes the history of academic science formation in Ukraine and Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s contribution to the organization of Ukrainian science; the scientist’s contribution to the creation of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences has been outlined; the concept of Great Ukrainian as to revival of Ukrainian Science on the base of humanitarian culture and structure of Western European academies has been researched; the role of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the Ukrainian nation formation has been determined.
Mykhailo Hrushevsky is the outstanding Ukrainian scientist, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, public and statesman, chronicler and creator of the monumental «History of Ukraine-Rus» which is considered to be a metric of the Ukrainians, and its author is
called the Great Ukrainian, who is a symbol of unity and indivisibility of the Ukrainian national science and scientific thought.
Outstanding scientist Mykhailo Hrushevsky left a huge scientific heritage and at the same time he was the founder of significant scientific institutions and made a considerable contribution to the Ukrainian science. His ideas are actual for the modern Ukrainian state creation.
In life path choosing Mykhailo Hrushevsky gave preference to science. In 1885, after his graduating from Tiflis gymnasium, he entered the historical-philological faculty of St. Volodymyr Kiev University, where he was a student of the professor Volodymyr Antonovych during 1886 – 1890 and showed progress in science written some works on the Southern Rus castles of the first half of the XVI century and «History of Kyiv land from Yaroslav death to the end of the XIV century», which was awarded by golden medal.
Mykhailo Hrushevsky turned Scientific Society named after Shevchenko into the Academy of Sciences of the European standard. The history of attempts to organize Ukrainian science into the academy dated back to 1873, when Scientific Society named after Shevchenko was founded in Lviv, which is called now the first National Academy of Sciences. 113 volumes of «Memoirs of Scientific Society named after Taras Shevchenko» edited by Hrushevsky was published till 1913. «Literary and Scientific Journal» initiated by Hrushevsky began to be published from 1989. In 1907 he set up another organization – the Ukrainian Scientific Society (USS). Creating them Hrushevsky tried to realize the idea of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Mykhailo Hrushevsky was the most prominent participant of the embodiment of long-standing dreams of the Ukrainian intelligent people – creating their own Academy of Sciences. He worked out his concept of the revival of Ukrainian science on the base of Western humanitarian culture and creatively used the structure of Western European academies.
In times of Mykhailo Hrushevsky in Kyiv two academic institutions were established
– the Ukrainian Scientific Society (USS), founded in 1906 in Kyiv, which, according to his plan, had to become the foundation of the future Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (UAS), founded at the time of the Hetman Skoropadsky by the Minister of Education M. Vasylenko and invited Russian academician V. Vernadsky, who wanted to realize his idea to decentralize scientific and academic research in Russia by establishing new academic institutions in Kiev, the Caucasus, Siberia, Moscow, treating the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences as an offshoot of Petersburg AS (that time Petrograd) and proposed to change the academy’s name, renaming it into Kyiv.
The most prominent historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky all his life devoted to science, tirelessly working on the scientific problems, he was the leading ideologist of the Ukrainian Unification. His great contribution into the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences has been evaluated by the scientific community.
Each of the academic institutions, created in Ukraine, followed his way. To call the way of Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society as easy is difficult – in 1939 it was abolished, and reactivated only in 1947 in Western Europe and the USA (where it is known as Shevchenko Scientific Society). Its department emerged in Canada, Australia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. And only in 1989 it began working in the territory of Ukraine. In the Soviet period the name of the most outstanding historian of Ukraine was unfairly prosecuted and Hrushevsky’s scientific heritage was covered in special funds and only nowadays we return Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s good name to the Ukrainian people. Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s scientific works are an inexhaustible source of wisdom; scientific interest to
Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s activities is associated with the awareness of the importance of academic contribution to the creation and development of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, its influence on the development of Ukrainian statehood.
The value of studying the experience of academic, research, publishing and cultural activities of M. Hrushevsky is determined by significant practical value and availability of opportunities to use it at the present stage of national revival of Ukraine. On the basis of
- K. Hrushevsky’s works summarizing the further study of the academic work and urgent need of all Ukrainian unity should be continued.
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