Education
Vovk graduated from Kiev University in 1871.
Vovk graduated from Kiev University in 1871.
In 1905 he returned to Russia, where, along with his position at the Alexander III Museum, he held a lecturership at Saint St. Petersburg University. He was granted a professorship at Kiev University in 1917 but died before he could take it up. 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.
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) 4, New York: Ukrainian Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Vovk, Galina (1929), Bibliografija prać Chvedora Vovka 1847-1918, Ukraïnśka Bibliografija 3.
He was an active member of the Kiev Hromada.