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IVAN OGIENKO
Ivan Ogienko was born on January 15, 1882 in the town of Brusyliv in
Zhytomyr region. He is known as an outstanding Ukrainian scientistphilologist,
teacher, church and public figure. He was born to a peasant
family. After getting high education in Kyiv University he became its
professor. This is a person who made a great contribution into Ukrainian
language and literature. In 1919 Ivan Ogienko was appointed as a Minister of
Public Education and a Minister of Religion for Ukrainian People's Republic.
During 1918-1920 he was a rector of Kamianets-Podil’sky State Ukrainian
University.
At the end of 1920 when liberation movement of the Ukrainian people
was defeated he emigrated to Poland. But thoughts about his native land never
left his mind for a moment. In Tarnov near Krakov he organized Ukrainian
cultural and religious centres. Since 1924 Ogienko had been teaching the
Ukrainian language in Lviv Teacher’s Seminary and in 1926-1932 he was a
professor of Orthodox department of theological faculty in the University of
Warsaw.
In 1940 Professor Ogienko became an archbishop of Holmschyna and
Pidliashia and later in 1944 he became a metropolitan of the mentioned
regions. In the summer of the same year metropolitan Ogienko was made to
leave for Switzerland. In some years he moved to Canada. There he regulated
high theological education for the Orthodox Canadians of Ukrainian origin,
organised publishing activities, started enormous scientific and research work.
Forty of his books appeared among which studies on the history of culture,
church, language and ethnography.
Ivan Ogienko is one of the leading Ukrainian linguists who successfully
worked both in the field of science and pedagogy advocating rights of the
Ukrainian language in science, education and everyday life of the Ukrainians.
Immense and multi-sided scientific heritage of Ivan Ogienko is worth to be
returned to the Ukrainian people and take a proper place in its spiritual and
national Renaissance.