Fedir Vovk

Fedir Kindratovych Vovk (Ukrainian Федір Кіндратович Вовк or Russian Фёдор Кондратьевич Волков; 1847–1918) was a Ukrainian anthropologist-archaeologist, the curator of the Alexander III Museum in St. Petersburg.[1][2]

Fedir Vovk

Vovk graduated from Kiev University in 1871. He was an active member of the Kiev Hromada. From 1887 to 1905 he lived in Paris to escape tsarist persecution; he earned a Ph.D. in 1900, and won the Godard Prize for his dissertation. In 1905 he returned to Russia, where, along with his position at the Alexander III Museum, he held a lecturership at Saint Petersburg University. He was granted a professorship at Kiev University in 1917 but died before he could take it up.[2]

Vovk's research concerned the anthropological study of the Ukrainian people; in it he argued that the Ukrainians constituted a separate group of Slavs most closely related to the Southern Slavs (Dinaric race).[2]

References
  1. Saunders, David (1988), "Britain and the Ukrainian Question (1912-1920)", The English Historical Review, 103 (406): 40–68, doi:10.1093/ehr/ciii.ccccvi.40.
  2. Mushynka, Mykola (1993), "Fedir Vovk", in Husar Struk, Danylo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ukraine, 5, University of Toronto Press, retrieved 2009-10-23.

Further reading
  • Antonovych, Marko (1997), Fedir Kindratovych Vovk, 1847-1918: memoirs, studies, bibliography; in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth, Sources of Modern History of the Ukraine (in Ukrainian), 4, New York: Ukrainian Academy of Arts & Sciences, ISBN 978-0-916381-11-0.
  • Vovk, Galina (1929), Bibliografija prać Chvedora Vovka 1847-1918, Ukraïnśka Bibliografija, 3.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.