Ostroh Academy

This article is about an academy that existed in 1576-1636 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. For a university in Ukraine that claims its heritage, see National University Ostroh Academy.
Ostroh University
Active1576–1636
Location
Ostroh
,
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern Ukraine)

Ostroh Academy (Polish: Akademia Ostrogska) was an influential institute of higher learning located in Ostroh in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It is considered the first institution of higher education in the Eastern Slavic world, dating to 1576 and founded by the wealthy Ruthenian magnate Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski. The academy was at the centre of what historians have dubbed the "Ostroh Renaissance",[1][2] an Orthodox cultural revival led by the Rus’ magnates of Poland-Lithuania in resistance to the dominant Reformation and Counter-Reformation.[3]

Its crowning achievement was the publication of the Ostroh Bible in 1581, the first complete print of the Bible in a Slavic language, and an "epochal event in the life of the whole Orthodox world."[4]

  1. ^ Kheleniuk, Anastasiia (2020). "Ostroh Academy: history and tradition". Warsaw University of Life Sciences. 1–2: 20–21.
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  3. ^ Chopyk, Dan (1983). ""BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONS WHICH LED TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE 'OSTROH BIBLE' IN 1581"". Russian Language Journal. 37 (128): 41–46.
  4. ^ Plokhy., Serhii (2001). The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine. Oxford University Press. p. 71.