THE T. SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY AND ITS SERIAL PUBLICATIONS IN THE RECEPTION OF THE CZECH SCIENTIFIC PRESS IN 1896 – 1918

Vasyl  GABOR; Lyudmila  BELINSKA

doi:10.24919/2519-058X.32.311497

Authors

Vasyl GABOR кандидат філологічних наук, старший науковий співробітник, старший науковий співробітник НДІ пресознавства, Львівська національна наукова бібліотека України імені Василя Стефаника, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5482-4529
Lyudmila BELINSKA PhD hab. (History), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Socio-Cultural Management, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4716-6011

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.32.311497

Keywords:

the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society, serial publications, Czech scholars, Ukrainian scholars, review.

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyse the corpus of publications by the Czech scholars about achievements of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society, its serial editions and studies of the Ukrainian scholars, published on the pages of the Czech scientific press in 1896 – 1918, i.e before Galicia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Scientific Novelty: for the first time, the evaluation of activities of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society by the famous Czech scholars (Jiří Polívka, Jiří Horák, Josef Páta and František Vladimír Vykoukal) has been understood; its serial publications and studies of the Ukrainian scholars (Mykhailo Drahomanov, Ivan Franko, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Zenon Kuzeli) in the context of the then European historical and ethnographic research. The research methodology is based on a combination of historical, biographical, comparative methods, as well as content analysis and critical analysis of the text. The Conclusions. Based on the twenty publications on the pages of the Czech scientific journals “Národopisný Věstník Českoslovanský”, “Národopisný Sborník Českoslovanský” and “Český Časopis Historický”, it has been determined that the activities of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society, a number of its serial publications (“Notes of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society”, “Ethnographic Collection”, “Collection of Philological Section” and “Materials on Ukrainian-Ruthenian Ethnology”) and studies of the Ukrainian scholars were in the focus of famous Czech scholars and received justified high evaluation. The Czech reviewers analysed the works of Ukrainian scholars objectively in the context of the then European historical science and ethnography, noted their high scientific level, and often considered them the best in their fields and a worthy example for other nations to follow, but at the same time pointed out certain shortcomings.

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