Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jaroslav Rudnyckyj

Ukrainian Canadian linguist, lexicographer and author

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1910

Place of Birth: Przemyśl, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1995

Profession: writer, historian, anthropologist, linguist, lexicographer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jaroslav Bohdan Rudnyckyj (Ukrainian: ??????´?-?????´? ?????´?????, pronounced [j?ro'sl?u? bo?'d?n r?d'n?ts?k?j]; November 18, 1910 – October 19, 1995) was a Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics, folklorist, bibliographer, travel writer, and publicist.
He was one of the pioneers of Slavic Studies in Canada and one of the founding fathers of Canadian "Multiculturalism".
In scholarship, he is best known for his incomplete two volume Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language (1962–82), his Ukrainian-German Dictionary (1943), and his extensive study of the term and name "Ukraine" (1951).