Nicholas Vakar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicholas Vakar

American writer

Date of Birth: 26-May-1894

Place of Birth: Tulchyn, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1970

Profession: historian, translator

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Nicholas P.
Vakar (26 or 27 May 1894 in Tulchyn, Ukraine, then in Russian Empire – 1970), Belarusian, author of Belorussia: The Making of a Nation.
Harvard U.
Press.
1956 and The Taproot of Soviet Society.
Harper.
1959.
A Word Count of Spoken Russian.
OSU Press, 1966. He was professor of Russian, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, from about 1946 to 1962, followed by 3 years at Ohio State University. He was married in 1926 to Gertrude Vakar, the translator.
They had two daughters, Catherine in 1927 and Anna in 1929; both girls have escaped from France to the United States in 1940.
The latter is well-known Canadian haiku poet residing in Oliver, British Columbia.