Antonovyč, Volodymyr

Autor: Antonovyč, Volodymyr
Rok: 1834-1908

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Ukrajinský historik, historiograf, archeolog a etnograf, vysokoškolský pedagog, publikace z oboru.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Volodymyr Antonovych (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Боніфа́тійович Антоно́вич; Polish: Włodzimierz Antonowicz; Russian: Влади́мир Бонифа́тьевич Антоно́вич; January 30, 1834, - March 21, 1908, Kiev), was a prominent Ukrainian historian and one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national awakening in the Russian Empire. As a historian, Antonovych, who was longtime Professor of History at the University of Kiev, represented a populist approach to Ukrainian history.This approach, which earlier had been exemplified by another historian, Mykola Kostomarov (Nikolay Kostomarov), took the side of the common people in the recurrent conflicts between the state and the people which had characterized Ukrainian history over the centuries. Kostomarov, Antonovych, and other populist historians thought the spirit of the nation was embedded in the Ukrainian folk, and saw the various states which had ruled Ukraine as exterior and foreign to this folk.Nevertheless, he was considered one of the most prominent specialists on pre-history of western Russia.