Ivan Krypiakevych

1. Ivan Krypiakevych

IVAN KRYPIAKEVYCH
Nizhyn State University named after Mykola Gogol
Faculty of History and Law
Vlada Berezka

2.

• Ivan Krypiakevych was a Ukrainian
historian, academician, professor
of Lviv University and director of
the Institute of Social Sciences
of Ukraine. He was a specialist on
Ukrainian history of the 15th, 16th,
and 17th centuries, writing
extensively on the social history
of western Ukraine and the political
history of the Ukrainian Cossacks,
especially during the time of
Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. He
also wrote many textbooks for
school use, popularizations, and
some historical fiction for children.
25 June 1886 – 21 April 1967

3. Austrian period

AUSTRIAN PERIOD
Krypiakevych was born and raised in Lemberg (Lviv)
in Austrian Galicia in a family of the Greek Catholic priest and
emigrant from the Chełm Land.
During his school years Krypiakevych talked exclusively
in Polish language.
Later he studied history under Mykhailo Hrushevsky at Lviv
University.
He wrote his 1911 doctorate on "The Cossacks and Bathory's
Privileges," a study of the origins of the Ukrainian Cossacks
legally registered with the Polish government.
From 1905, he began publishing in the scholarly journal of
the Shevchenko Scientific Society, which under the leadership
of Hrushevsky became a kind of unofficial Ukrainian Academy
of Sciences serving the Ukrainian people on both sides of the
Austrian-Russian border. In 1907 Krypiakevych on the notice
of Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki, a Governor of the Kingdom of
Galicia and Lodomeria, was imprisoned for student protests
that took place near the Lviv University. He initially was
detained as a terrorist, but later it was degraded as disturbing
a public peace.

4. Interwar Galicia

INTERWAR GALICIA
• During the interwar period, Krypiakevych, being
excluded from a university position by the Polish
regime, continued to teach at various gymnasia and to
actively support the Shevchenko Scientific Society.
From 1921 to 1924, he was a professor of the Secret
Ukrainian University in Lviv and was secretary of its
senate. From 1934 to 1939, he taught at the Greek
Catholic Theological Academy. All of his major works
during this period appeared in the Ukrainian and not
the Polish language. Throughout the 1920s and
1930s, he remained active in various educational and
public projects such as preserving the gravesites of
fallen Ukrainian soldiers and promoting tourist
literature about Ukrainian Galicia. From 1934, he was
head of the Historical Section of the Shevchenko
Scientific Society.

5. Soviet annexation and war

SOVIET ANNEXATION AND WAR
• The 1939 fall of the Polish Republic and the Soviet annexation of Galicia
brought far-reaching changes to academic as well as social and political
life and Krypiakevych was appointed professor of history at the
reorganized and partially Sovietized Lviv University.
• The university was suppressed during the German occupation but
Krypiakevych found work at the Ukrainian Publishing House in Lviv.
Unlike many of his Galician Ukrainian colleagues, mostly for family
reasons, he decided to remain in Lviv after the German retreat
westwards.

6. Soviet period

SOVIET PERIOD
The return of the Soviets brought renewed repressions to the west
Ukrainian intelligentsia and in 1946 Krypiakevych was deported
east to Kiev with many of his colleagues being accused in the
Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism. For several years, he experienced
political persecution, but in 1948, he was able to return to Lviv, and,
with the help of the Soviet Ukrainian historian, Fedir Shevchenko,
learned to adapt his historical writing to Soviet conditions and to the
Soviet censors. From 1951, he headed the Institute of Social
Sciences at the Lviv branch of the Academy of Sciences of
the Ukrainian SSR. In 1958, he was elected an "Academic" of the
Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

7. Major works

MAJOR WORKS
• Krypiakevych's early works dealt with the
early modern history of the City of Lviv and
the social history of Galicia, he then
undertook further studies of the Cossacks
in international politics, and then the
Cossack "state" created by Bohdan
Khmelnytsky in 1648.
• During the period of Polish ascendency,
Krypiakevych co-authored and published
many popularizations, the most important
of which were his "Great History of
Ukraine" (1935), his "History of the
Ukrainian Army" (1936), and his "History of
Ukrainian Culture" (1937). His textbooks of
Ukrainian history were widely used both in
Galicia and also among Ukrainians in
North America.

8. Legacy

LEGACY
• With the emergence of the Gorbachev
reforms and Ukrainian independence, his
major works from pre-Soviet times were
reprinted and uncensored editions of certain
of his Soviet-era works like "Bohdan
Khmelnytsky" were published.
• Today, he is widely revered as one of
Hrushevsky's foremost students, a
continuator of his tradition, and one of the
most important historians of western
Ukraine.
• The Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the
National Academy of Sciences in Lviv is
named in his honour.
• In 1993 the Institute of Social Studies of
Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR
in Lviv was renamed into the Krypiakevych
Institute of Ukrainian Studies (National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

9. Family

FAMILY
Ivan Krypiakevych had two sons who later became
Ukrainian scientists.
Petro-Bohdan (1923-1980)
Roman (1925-1999)
Roman Krypiakevych,
son of Ivan Krypiakevych

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Died April 21, 1967 in Lviv, buried in
the Lychakiv cemetery

11. THANK YOU!