Orest Subtelny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Orest Subtelny

Canadian-Ukrainian historian

Date of Birth: 07-May-1941

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 24-Jul-2016

Profession: historian

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Orest Subtelny (Ukrainian: ?´???? ?????´?????, 7 May 1941 – 24 July 2016) was a Ukrainian-Canadian historian.
Born in Kraków, Poland, he received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1973.
Since 1982, he was a professor in the departments of history and political science at York University in Toronto.In the words of Taras Kuzio, a senior research fellow at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Subtelny “made a truly enormous contribution to Ukrainian nation-building.
Prof.
Subtelny was not an ivory-tower academic.
He was an internationally acclaimed historian, civic and community activist whose roots in the Ukrainian community meant his focus was on Ukrainian national identity, the struggle for independence and achieving statehood.”