Bohdan Lepky

Bohdan Lepky
Богдан Лепкий
Born(1872-11-09)9 November 1872
Kryvenke, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died21 July 1941(1941-07-21) (aged 68)
Kraków, Kraków District, General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region
Burial placeRakowicki Cemetery

Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky, (Ukrainian: Богдан Теодор Нестор Сильвестрович Лепкий, 9 November 1872 – 21 July 1941) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist.

He was born on 9 November 1872, in the village of Kryvenke, in the same house where the Polish insurgent Bogdan Jarocki once lived. He spent his childhood in Krohulets. Son of Ukrainian writer and Greek Catholic priest Sylvester Lepkyi.

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