Ivan Zilynsky
Ivan Zilynsky (22 May 1879, Krasna (Korostenka) near Krosno, now Poland — 21 April 1952, Prague) was a Ukrainian linguist and folklorist, a researcher of the Lemko dialects and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He came from a poor peasant family in the Lemko region. He finished the gymnasium in Przemyśl and the philosophy faculty of the University of Vienna; already in his second year he wrote a paper on the general state of Ukrainian dialectology. In 1907 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He taught Ukrainian, German and Latin at gymnasiums in Berezhany, Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) and Lviv. In 1911 he researched the Ukrainian language in central Ukraine and used this material for his work An Attempt to Classify Ukrainian Dialects (Lviv, 1914). After the Second World War he stayed in Prague as professor of Ukrainian and Belarusian at Charles University. He died in Prague.Collection3