Dmytro Antonovych (14 November 1877, in Kyiv – 12 October 1945, in Prague) was a Ukrainian politician and art historian.

Dmytro Antonovych
Дмитро Антонович
Secretary/Minister of Naval Affairs
In office
January 6, 1918 – February 9, 1918
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Vynnychenko
Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded byposition created
Succeeded byposition disbanded
Minister of Arts
In office
December 26, 1918 – February 13, 1919
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Chekhivsky
Preceded byposition created
Succeeded byposition disbanded
Personal details
Born(1877-11-14)November 14, 1877
Kyiv, Russian Empire
DiedOctober 12, 1945(1945-10-12) (aged 67)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Political partyRUP, USDRP
SpouseKateryna Antonovych (nee Serebriakova)
ChildrenMarko Antonovych
Mykhailo Antonovych
Maryna Rudnytska
Occupationhistorian, politician, diplomat
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Family

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Professor Dmytro Antonovych was the son of two Ukrainian historians: his father was Volodymyr Antonovych and his mother was Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk (1859–1942), an archaeologist[1] from the city of Khorol (today – Poltava Oblast). He married the artist and art historian Kateryna Antonovych, and was the father of Marko Antonovych and Mykhailo Antonovych.

Career

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In 1900–1905, he was one of the founders and leaders of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), established in 1900 in the city of Kharkiv, and from 1905, of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (USDRP).[2]

Antonovych was a member of the Ukrainian Central Council, and he served as the minister of naval affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic, in cabinets headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Vsevolod Holubovych (1917-1918), and the minister of arts in Volodymyr Chekhivsky’s government (1918/1919).[3] Then Antonovych was the president of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission of the UNR in Rome.

His works include Estetychne vykhovannia Shevchenka (Shevchenko's Aesthetic Education, 1914), Ukraïns'ke mystetstvo (Ukrainian Art, 1923), Trysta rokiv ukraïns'koho teatru (1619–1919) (Three Hundred Years of Ukrainian Theater [1619–1919], 1925), T. Shevchenko iak maliar (T. Shevchenko, the Artist, 1937), and Deutsche Einflüsse auf die ukrainische Kunst (1942).[4]

References

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  1. ^ Сьомочкіна-Рижко, О. М. "Антонович-Мельник Катерина Миколаївна". Енциклопедія Сучасної України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-10-13.
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Antonovych, Dmytro
  3. ^ Council of National Ministers of the Ukrainian National Republic
  4. ^ "Antonovych, Dmytro". www.encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
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