Dmytro Yavornytsky
Dmytro Yavornytsky | |
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Дмитро Яворницький | |
Yavornytsky in 1885 | |
| Born | Dmytro Ivanovych Evarnytsky (Дмитро Іванович Еварницький) November 6, 1855 |
| Died | August 5, 1940 (aged 84) |
| Other names | Dmytro Yavornytsky-Evarnytsky |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire Ukrainian People's Republic Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv University |
| Occupation | historian |
| Employer(s) | Historical Museum (1902—1933), Director |
| Known for | his research for the Zaporozhian Sich |
| Spouse | Varvara Kokina |
| Awards | Acad. of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Imperial Moscow University |
| Academic advisors | Alexander Potebnja Mykola Sumtsov Mykola Kostomarov |
| Notable students | Kost Huslystyi |
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Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Іва́нович Яворни́цький; November 6, 1855 – August 5, 1940) was a Ukrainian academician, historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer.
Yavornytsky was a member of Moscow Archaeological Society (from 1885), of All-Russian Archaeological Society (from 1886) and an academician of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (from 1929).
He was recognised as one of the most prominent researchers of the Zaporozhian Cossacks from the time of the Cossack Hetmanate, and the author of their first general history. In recognition of his many contributions to the preservation of Zaporozhian Host history and culture, he is widely known in historiography as "the father of the Zaporozhians".