Fedir Vovk

Fedir Kindratovych Vovk (Ukrainian: Федір Кіндратович Вовк, 1847–1918) also known as Khvedir Vovk (Ukrainian: Хведір Вовк^[1]^[2]) was a Ukrainian anthropologist-archaeologist, the curator of the Alexander III Museum in St. Petersburg.^[3]^[4]

Vovk graduated from Kyiv University in 1871. He was an active member of the Kyiv Hromada. From 1887 to 1905 he lived in Paris to escape tsarist persecution; he earned a Ph.D. in 1900, and won the Godard Prize for his dissertation. In 1905 he returned to Russia, where, along with his position at the Alexander III Museum, he held a lecturership at Saint Petersburg University. He was granted a professorship at Kiev University in 1917 but died before he could take it up.^[4]

Vovk's research concerned the anthropological study of the Ukrainian people; in it he argued that the Ukrainians constituted a separate group of Slavs most closely related to the Southern Slavs (Dinaric race).^[4]

References

^ "Народився Хведір Вовк, видатний український антрополог, етнограф, археолог, громадський діяч | Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського". www.nbuv.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
^ "Вовк Хведір Кіндратович". irbis-nbuv.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
^ Saunders, David (1988), "Britain and the Ukrainian Question (1912-1920)", The English Historical Review, 103 (406): 40–68, doi:10.1093/ehr/ciii.ccccvi.40.
^ ^a ^b ^c Mushynka, Mykola (1993), "Fedir Vovk", in Husar Struk, Danylo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5, University of Toronto Press, retrieved 2009-10-23.

Antonovych, Marko (1997), Fedir Kindratovych Vovk, 1847-1918: memoirs, studies, bibliography; in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth, Sources of Modern History of the Ukraine (in Ukrainian), vol. 4, New York: Ukrainian Academy of Arts & Sciences, ISBN 978-0-916381-11-0.
Vovk, Galina (1929), Bibliografija prać Chvedora Vovka 1847-1918, Ukraïnśka Bibliografija, vol. 3.