Ahatanhel Krymsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ahatanhel Krymsky

Ukrainian academic

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1871

Place of Birth: Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1942

Profession: writer, poet, historian, translator, author, university teacher, anthropologist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Ahatanhel Krymsky

  • Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky (Ukrainian: ????????? ???????? ?????????, Russian: ????????? ???????? ????????; 15 January [O.S.
  • 3 January] 1871 – 25 January 1942) was a Ukrainian Orientalist, linguist and polyglot (knowing up to 35 languages), literary scholar, folklorist, writer, and translator.
  • He was one of the founders of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) in 1918 and a full member of it and of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1903. Although Krymsky had no Ukrainian origin he described himself as "Ukrainophile".In 1920s he was arrested by the Soviet authorities as "Ukrainian nationalist", an "ideologist of Ukrainian nationalists" and a "head of nationalistic underground".
  • He was convicted in "Anti-Soviet nationalistic activities" and imprisoned in Kustanay General Prison No.7 (today near Kustanay, Kazakhstan).

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