Ivan Uzhevych
Deceased Person
Who is Ivan Uzhevych?
Ivan Petrovych Uzhevych was a Ruthenian grammarian.
Very little is known about his biography: From 1637 he studied at Cracow University, then in 1643 he was a student of theology at the Sorbonne, Paris. He wrote a Polish ode on the occasion of the marriage of a certain Aleksander Przyłęcki with Ewa Rupniowa, which was printed in 1641. Uzhevych is well-known to historians of the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages as the author of the first grammar of an East Slavic language.
His name in various languages: Ukrainian: Іва́н Петро́вич Уже́вич, Belarusian: Іван Ужэвіч, Polish: ''Jan Użewicz''. He himself wrote his name Іωаннъ Ужевичъ Словянинъ, Ioannes Usevicius Sclavonus, Ioannes Ugevicius Sclavonus, Jan Użewic; in the student register of Cracow University he is written Ioannes Petri Uzewicz.
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