Background
Sevcenko, Ihor was born on February 10, 1922 in Radosc, Poland. Son of Ivan and Maria (Cherniatynska) Sevcenko. came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1957.
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These reprints of articles, reviews, and other short pieces by the well-known Byzantinist, Ihor Ševčenko, are gathered together in one volume for the first time. The collection reflects the author's wide-ranging interests and his significant contributions to the study of the relationship between Byzantine and East Slavic culture. A number of the original articles have been provided with addenda by the author. Among the articles are the author's now famous study, "Fragments of the Toparcha Gothicus," in which he demonstrates their nineteenth-century provenance at the hands of their "discoverer" Karl Benedikt Hase; the analysis of the impact on Muscovite political ideology of the writings of Deacon Agapetus; the discovery of the Greek prose original of the putative poem contained in the Life of the Slavic Apostle Cyril; and the find, made at St. Catherine's Monastery, of Constantine Tischendorf's letters regarding the transfer of the Codex Sinaiticus to St. Petersburg. Other articles include the author's studies on the impact of Byzantine elements in early Ukrainian culture and in some Kievan texts; and his observations on Byzantine social history at the time of the Slavic Apostles. Ševčenko offers these studies up as a challenge to the younger generation of scholars engaged in new approaches within these fields. Of further interest to Byzantinists and Slavists alike are the author's reviews and retrospectives, including retrospectives of George Christos Soulis, George Ostrogorsky, Francis Dvornik, and Michael Cherniavsky. Taken as a whole, the volume is a lively guide along a varied journey through the world of Byzantium and the Slays and reconstructs the relationship between the two in the light of texts, both literary and scientific. It also reflects the history of Slavic and Byzantine studies in the United States and Europe.
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Ukraine Between East and West presents twelve essays by the distinguished Byzantinist Ihor Sevcenko that explore the development of Ukrainian cultural identity under the disparate influences of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe (mediated through Poland). For Kyivan Rus', Byzantium was the source of the Christian religion, as well as of a highly developed literary and artistic culture that stimulated Kyiv's own achievements in these fields. The author shows how the prestige of Byzantine civilization was reinforced by the activities of Greek metropolitans of Kyiv, Byzantine emperors, religious missionaries and teachers of Greek, dominating the outlook of the Slavic elite during the Middle Ages. This civilization influenced Kyivan culture not only during Byzantium's period of greatness, but even after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. Moving on to the early modern period, Ihor Sevcenko analyzes the impact of the Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Ukraine. The scholarship and new instructional methods of the Polish Jesuits and the assimilative pressure of the Polish church and state compelled the Ukrainian elite not only to rise in defense of its ancestral faith but also to reshape its traditional culture with the aid of Western innovations. The intellectual ferment of the era is captured in essays on the defense of the Orthodox faith and the religious polemical literature. The essay on Metropolitan Peter Mohyla examines the complex cultural world of this important churchman. Concluding the work is a consideration of the way in which Byzantine and Western influences combined with the Kyivan legacy to produce a distinctive Ukrainian identity. Sevcenko's essays, in which a wealth of detail is given coherence by an acute, richly informed analytical perspective, will reward not only students of Byzantine and East European history but all readers interested in problems of cultural formation and development. Five essays are published here for the first time, while the other seven have been extensively revised and augmented. Bibliographic notes are appended to each essay, and the volume is enhanced with 21 pages of fifteen chronological tables and four excellent fold-out maps. This is the inaugural volume of the monograph series published by the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. The series aims to foster the publication of new research, textbooks, source materials, and translations of classical historical works.
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Sevcenko, Ihor was born on February 10, 1922 in Radosc, Poland. Son of Ivan and Maria (Cherniatynska) Sevcenko. came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1957.
Doctor of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, 1945. Doct. en Phil. et Lettres, University Louvain, Belgium, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Cologne, Germany, 1994.
Doctor in History Sciences (honorary), University Warsaw, Poland, 2001. Doctor in Liberal Arts (honorary), Catholic University, Lublin, Poland, 2005.
Fellow in Byzantinology, Dumbarton Oaks, 1949-1950;
director studies, Dumbarton Oaks, 1966;
professor Byzantine history and literature, Dumbarton Oaks, 1965-1975;
senior research associate, Dumbarton Oaks, since 1975;
lecturer Byzantine and ancient history, University of California, Berkeley, 1950-1951;
fellow Byzantinology and Slavic literature, research program, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1951-1952;
instructor, then assistant professor Slavic languages and literature, University of Michigan, 1953-1957;
member of faculty, Columbia University, 1957-1972;
professor, Columbia University, 1962-1965;
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, 1965-1972;
visiting professor, Harvard University, 1973-1974;
professor, Harvard University, 1974-1992;
emeritus, Harvard University, 1992. Visiting fellow All Souls College, University of Oxford, 1979-1980, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 1987, 93. Visiting member Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 1956.
Visiting professor Munich U., 1959, College de France, spring 1985, Cologne U., fall 1992, 96, Control European U., Budapest, spring and fall 1995, spring 1997. Treasurer, acting treasurer, board directors American Research Institute in Turkey,1964-1966, 67, 75-. Associate director Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1973-1989, acting director, 1977, 85-86.
Chairman National Committee Byzantine Studies, 1966-1977. Member International Committee for Greek Paleography, since 1983. Guest of the rector Collegium Budapest, spring 1998.
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Fellow Mediaeval Academy American, British Academy (correspondent). Member American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Ukrainian Academy Arts and Sciences United States (honorary president 2003-2009), Science Sevcenko Society, Société des Bollandistes Belgium (adjunct), Accademia di Palermo (foreign), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (foreign), International Association Byzantine Studies (vice president 1976-1986, president 1986-1996, honorary president 1996-2009), Christian Archeological Society Athens (honorary), Austrian Academy of Sciences (correspondent), Accademia Pontaniana Naples (foreign), Academy Humanities Research (Moscow), Polish Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign), Cosmos Club (Washington), Harvard Club (New York City), Signet Society, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).
Married Oksana Draj-Xmara, April, 1945 (divorced 1953). Married Margaret M. Bentley, July 16, 1953 (divorced 1966). Married Nancy Patterson, June 18, 1966 (divorced 1995).
Children: Catherine, Elisabeth.