Background
Viktor Petrov was born on 10 October 1894 in Yekaterinoslav (today"s Dnipropetrovsk).
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Viktor Petrov
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In 1918 he graduated from historical-philological faculty of Kiev University.
Career
Although Petrov is remembered as a writer today, during his life he was a scientist in the first place. He wrote papers on archaeology, anthropology, history, philosophy and literature. Later he worked at the ethnographic committee of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
In 1930 he obtained his doctorate for a study titled "Panteleymon Kulish in the 50s.
Life. Ideology. Creativity". During the World World War II he was in the territory occupied by Germans where he worked in several Ukrainian magazines and newspapers.
After World World War II Petrov stayed in emigration in Germany, during which he was a professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. At a later time Petrov disappeared from Germany under unknown circumstances.
Later it was discovered (due to a reference to him in A Mongait"s survey book) that he returned to the Soviet Union and kept working at the Institute of Archaeology in Kiev.
Petrov died in 1969 and is buried in Kiev.
Achievements
Membership
He was also one of the founding members of the Ukrainian artist movement, a literary organization of the Ukrainian intellectual diaspora.
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