Mykhailo Drahomanov Михайло Драгоманов | |
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Born | Hadiach, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (Now in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) | 18 September 1841
Died | 2 July 1895 Sofia, Bulgaria | (aged 53)
Resting place | Central Sofia Cemetery |
Occupation | Historian |
Language | Ukrainian, Russian |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Alma mater | University of Kyiv |
Period | Ukrainian national revival |
Genre | Academic writing, political journalism |
Subject | Ukrainian history, culture and politics |
Literary movement | Radicalism |
Spouse | Lyudmyla Drahomanova |
Children | Lidia Shishmanova |
Relatives | Lesya Ukrainka (niece) Olena Pchilka (sister) |
Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov (Ukrainian: Михайло Петрович Драгоманов; 18 September 1841 – 2 July 1895) was a Ukrainian intellectual and public figure. As an academic, Drahomanov was an economist, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer, while as a public intellectual he was a political theorist with socialist leanings, perhaps best known as one of the first proponents of Ukrainian autonomism. For Drahomanov, ethnographic studies had a deep influence on his political ideas, and his politics in turn motivated study of particular areas of Ukrainian folk literature.[1]