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UDK [39:061.2НТШ](477)”189/191″І.Франко:930.2

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

IVAN FRANKO — HEAD OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC COMMISSION OF THE NTSH

SAPELYAK Oksana

  • ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8111-6563
  • PhD in History, Senior Research Associate,
  • Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy
  • of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • Department of Modern Ethnology,
  • Active Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society,
  • 15, Prospekt Svoboda, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine, 
  • Contacts: e-mail: etnomod@ukr.net

Abstract. Problem statement. In 1873, the Shevchenko Society (later the Shevchenko Scientific Society) was established in Lviv. It included scientific sections.

In 1898, at a meeting of the historical and philosophical section, M. Hrushevsky proposed electing an Ethnographic Commission, which was tasked with editing the «Ethnographic Collection», uniting scientists devoted to national interests, organizing scientific work and educating young ethnographers capable of keeping Ukrainian science in the know of universal interests and giving it an all-Ukrainian character as fully as possible. I. Franko was elected the chairman of this commission.

The purpose of the study is to study in more detail the direct contribution of the Chairman of the Ethnographic Commission in the process of collecting, recording ethnographic and folklore materials, organizing scientific expeditions, publishing and editing scientific research by ethnologists. 

The object of the study is the activities of I. Franko as a scientist in the position of Head of the Ethnographic Commission of the National Scientific School, the subject is the scientific achievements of the commission from 1898 to 1914. 

The methodological basis of the study is the general scientific principles of historicism, systematicity, scientific objectivity, which made it possible to carry out the necessary scientific analysis of the research topic as a whole, as well as its individual aspects, the use of various methods used by ethnological science, such as typological, complex, comparative and, importantly, the method of historical reconstruction of the phenomena under study.

Keywords: Ivan Franko, ethnology, Ethnographic Commission, recording of collected materials, expeditions, publications, reviews.

Received 24.05.2025

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