Volodymyr Hnatiuk

Volodymyr Hnatiuk
Володимир Гнатюк
Volodymyr Hnatiuk
Volodymyr Hnatiuk
Born(1871-05-09)May 9, 1871
Velesniv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
DiedOctober 6, 1926(1926-10-06) (aged 55)
Lwów, Poland
(now Lviv, Ukraine)
Occupationethnographer, writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist
LanguageUkrainian
NationalityUkrainian
Notable awardsKotliarevsky’ Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Hnatiuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Михайлович Гнатюк; 9 May 1871 – 6 October 1926) was a writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.

Hnatiuk focused primarily on West Ukraine, gathering information about folk songs, legends, customs and dialects.

He was a close companion of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Ivan Franko. Member of Russian Academy of Arts (1902), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1905).

The board and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida, Lviv, 31 October 1898: Sitting in the first row: Mykhaylo Pavlyk, Yevheniya Yaroshynska, Natalia Kobrynska, Olha Kobylianska, Sylvester Lepky, Andriy Chaykovsky, Kost Pankivsky. In the second row: Ivan Kopach, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Osyp Makovej, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Kolessa, Bohdan Lepky. Standing in the third row: Ivan Petrushevych, Filaret Kolessa, Yossyp Kyshakevych, Ivan Trush, Denys Lukianovych, Mykola Ivasyuk.

In 1899 he became the secretary of Shevchenko Scientific Society. Editor of the Shevchenko"s Scientific Society publication and “The Ukrainian Historical Journal”. He was the director of the Ukrainian Union of publishing.