Author: Simovych, Vasyl
Title: Taras Shevchenko. Ioho Zhittia Ta Tvorchist (Taras Shevchenko. His Life and Work)
Description: Lviv, Ukrainske vydavnytstvo, 1941. Third, expanded edition; 5 1/2 x 4; pp. [2], 5-87, [1]; light-brown wraps, printed in black; illustrated with portrait frontis; minor creasing to corners of wraps; small nicks to tips of spine; faint, personal stamp of previous owner to title page; several lines of text underlined; in good to very good condition. Vasyl Simovych (1880 - 1944) was an author, cultural figure, linguist, translator, editor, and member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. During WWI, he worked as a teacher with the Union of the Liberation of Ukraine in German and Austrian POW camps. In the 1920s and 1930s, while teaching at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute in Prague, he wrote several significant linguistic works, including an Old Church Slavonic grammar and an anthology of Old Ukrainian literature. Good .

Keywords: Biography, Ukraine


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