Jaroslav Rudnyckyj
Writer, Author
1910 – 1995
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Who was Jaroslav Rudnyckyj?
Jaroslav Bohdan Rudnyckyj, OC was a Ukrainian Canadian linguist, lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics, folklorist, bibliographer, travel writer, and publicist. He was one of the pioneers of Slavic Studies in Canada and one of the founding fathers of Canadian "Multiculturalism". In scholarship, he is best known for his incomplete two volume Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, his Ukrainian-German Dictionary, and his extensive study of the term and name "Ukraine".
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- Born
- Nov 18, 1910
Przemyśl - Also known as
- Jaroslav B. Rudnycʹkyj
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Lviv University
- Employment
- University of Manitoba
- Lived in
- Winnipeg
- Died
- Oct 19, 1995
Winnipeg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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