Omeljan Pritsak | |
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Born | 7 April 1919 Luka, Sambir County, West Ukrainian People's Republic |
Died | 29 May 2006 (aged 87) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Citizenship | American |
Occupation(s) | Academic, professor, historian, linguist, medievalist |
Known for | First Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University, founder and first director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, founder of the journal Harvard Ukrainian Studies, founder of the Oriental Institute of the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, founder of the journal Skhidnyi svit (The Oriental World) |
Title | Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University (1975) |
Academic background | |
Education | Polish “First Gymnasium” of Ternopil’, University of Lviv, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Göttingen |
Alma mater | University of Lviv, University of Göttingen, Harvard University |
Academic advisors | Ivan Krypiakevych, Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky |
Influences | Roman Jakobson, Viacheslav Lypynsky |
Academic work | |
Era | 20th century |
Discipline | Medieval studies, Ukrainian history |
Institutions | University of Hamburg, University of Washington, Harvard University |
Main interests | Oriental, especially Turkic, sources for the history of Kyivan Rus' |
Notable works | The Origin of Rus' |
Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak (Ukrainian: Омелян Йосипович Пріцак; 7 April 1919 – 29 May 2006) was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[1]