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UDK [39:929(477)”1907/1975″К.Добрянський](093)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

KALISTRAT DOBRYANSKYI: POINTS OF HIS BIOGRAPHY AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY UNTIL THE END OF THE 1930S

HILEVYCH Ihor

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4405-2588
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences (= Ph.D. in history),
  • Associate Professor of the Department of Ethnology,
  • Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
  • 1, Universytetska Str., 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: ihor.hilevych@lnu.edu.ua

Abstract. The article, based on the involvement of significant primary archival and published material, examines Kalistrat Dobryanskyi’s studies at Lviv University, his cooperation with the Ethnographic Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv and a number of other ethnographic centers in Galicia in the 1930s, the subject matter, geography and methodology of his field research, and his contribution to the implementation of a number of collective scientific projects.

K. Dobryanskyi belongs to the generation of Ukrainian ethnologists of the interwar period, who were brought up in the environment of a powerful ethnological center at the Jan Casimir University in Lviv and the Ethnographic Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. He entered historiography primarily as a researcher of the Boykivshchyna, although only two of his articles from the magazine «Lud» are usually mentioned. However, his work in the post-war period usually falls out of the field of view of modern authors.

The main area of his collecting work in the 1930s, both for his own ethnographic explorations and for the implementation of a number of important scientific projects (a dictionary of Boyko geographical terms; dictionaries of plants and animals in folk beliefs and customs), was his native Stary Sambir and its surroundings.

The topics of his research during the period under study included plants and animals in folk beliefs, folk medicine, bachelor fraternities, and calendar rituals. As evidenced by scientific studies by modern specialists from various areas of traditional Ukrainian culture, K. Dobryanskyi’s materials contain some unique evidence, and can also be used as comparative material for regional and all-Ukrainian research in our time.

From the second half of the 1930s, the young ethnologist was actively involved in museum work as a fellow of the Cultural and Historical Museum of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv, a member of the section of the Society of Supporters of the aforementioned museum, and a co-organizer of the exhibitions «Polissya» (1938) and «Lemkivshchyna» (1939).

The factual material collected in the proposed article and the conclusions drawn will become an important basis for a separate study of K. Dobryansky from the fall of 1939, in which we will try to characterize the subject matter and results of his research, the main projects in the implementation of which he was involved at that time, and most importantly, to answer the question: what or who prevented this young, promising scientist from leaving an even more noticeable mark in Ukrainian ethnological science.

Keywords: Kalistrat Dobryansky, ethnology, folklore, spiritual culture, folk medicine, Boykivshchyna, field research, museum work.

Received 8.05.2025

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