Zenon Kuzela
Deceased Person
1882 – 1952
Who was Zenon Kuzela?
Zenon Frantsyskovych Kuzela was a prominent Ukrainian linguist, bibliographer, historian, journalist, civil activist.
He was born in a family of forester in the village of Poruchyn. Kuzela studied at Berezhany gymnasium where he organized a secret club "Young Ukraine". After finishing gymnasium in 1900, he enrolled into the Lviv University. Kuzela, however, soon moved to Vienna where he continued to study at the University of Vienna and headed the Ukrainian student society "Sich". After finishing the university for short while he worked in Vienna, but in 1909 moved to Chernivtsi, while becoming also a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv.
With the start of the World War I Kuzela moved back to Vienna where he worked for a community. In 1916 to 1920 he conducted a culturally educational work for the interned in the camp near Saltzwedel.
After moving to Berlin Kuzela was an editor of a journal "Ukrainske Slovo" and publications such as "Ukrainische Kulturberichte" and "Ukrainska Nakladnya". In 1943 there was published a big "Ukrainian-German dictionary" that was edited by Zenon Kuzela and Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, which even to this day is an unsurpassed work.
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