Zenon Kuzela, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Zenon Kuzela

Ukrainian historian

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1882

Place of Birth: Poruchyn, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 24-May-1952

Profession: historian, art historian, journalist, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Zenon Kuzela

  • Zenon Frantsyskovych Kuzelya (June 23, 1882 – May 24, 1952) was a prominent Ukrainian linguist, bibliographer, historian, journalist, and civil activist. He was born in a family of forestry in the village of Poruchyn (today's in Berezhany Raion).
  • Kuzelya studied at Berezhany gymnasium where he organized a secret club called "Young Ukraine".
  • After finishing gymnasium in 1900, he enrolled into the Lviv University.
  • Kuzelya, however, soon moved to Vienna, where he continued to study at the University of Vienna and headed the Ukrainian student society "Sich".
  • After graduating he worked in Vienna, and in 1909 he moved to Chernivtsi, while also becoming a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. With the start of the World War I Kuzela moved back to Vienna, where he worked for a community.
  • From 1916 to 1920 he conducted a culturally educational work for the interned in the camp near Saltzwedel (Germany). After moving to Berlin, Kuzelya was an editor of a journal called "Ukrainske Slovo" (Ukrainian Word) and publications such as "Ukrainische Kulturberichte" and "Ukrains'ka Nakladnya".
  • In 1943 there was published a big "Ukrainian-German dictionary" that was edited by Zenon Kuzelya and Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, which even to this day is an unsurpassed work. From 1944 to 1952 Kuzelya worked in Munich as a head of the Ukrainian Student Assistance Commission which helped the Ukrainian students abroad.
  • Along with it he continued to work in mentioned publications and was a co-author of the first part of Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Munich - New-York, 1949).
  • In 1949 Kuzela was appointed the head of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Since 1951 Kuzelya lived in Paris.

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