Volodymyr Yaniv, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Volodymyr Yaniv

Ukrainian scout leader

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1991

Profession: poet, politician, historian

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Volodymyr Yaniv (born 21 November 1908 in Lviv, Galicia – 19 November 1991) was a community and scouting leader in the 1930s, an activist in the OUN and the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), editor of numerous student and community publications, a professional psychologist and sociologist, and a Ukrainian poet.
He was a professor of Psychology at the Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Hirschberg Castle (1947–8), professor of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (from 1955) and its rector (1968–86), professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome (from 1963), a publicist, poet, member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (from 1987). Yaniv completed his gymnasium studies in Lviv in 1928 and further studied history and psychology at the Lviv University.
After incarceration at the Bereza Kartuska Detention Camp he completed his studies in Berlin with a dissertation on "The psychological changes of political prisoners".
In 1946 he moved to Munich where took an active part in the life of the Ukrainian Free University.
Yaniv wrote numerous works studying the effect of incarceration on the works of notable Ukrainian cultural figures such as Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Vasyl Symonenko, Ihor Kalynets.