Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Volodymyr Hnatiuk

Ukrainian etnographer and writer

Date of Birth: 09-May-1871

Place of Birth: Velesniv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 06-Oct-1926

Profession: writer, translator, ethnologist, journalist, folklorist, anthropologist, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Volodymyr Hnatiuk (1871-1926), 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). 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.