Androkhovych, Amvrosii

Androkhovych, Amvrosii [Андрохович, Амвросій; Androxovyč, Amvrosij], b 5 October 1879 in Lysets, Stanyslaviv county, Galicia, d 1942 in Cracow. Pedagogue and historian, full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, professor at the Greek Catholic Theological Academy in Lviv (1941–2), director of a teacher's seminary in Sokal, Galicia (1928–31), and of the Second State Woman Teachers' Seminary in Lviv (1931–4). Androkhovych wrote studies on the Barbareum and the Studium Ruthenum (Zapysky Naukovoho tovarystva im. Shevchenka, vols 131, 132, 137, 146, Lviv 1921–9), as well as on the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv, and articles on the cultural history of Galicia, particularly on education in the late-18th and early-19th century.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]