Kurovets, Ivan

Kurovets, Ivan [Куровець, Іван; Kurovec'], b 17 January 1863 in Batiatychi, Kaminka-Strumylova county, Galicia, d 13 May 1931 in Lviv. Physician; civic and political activist. A graduate of the Medical Academy in Vienna (1887), Kurovets worked as a physician in Kalush, where he helped establish the Peasant’s Bank and People's Home, and was a delegate to the Galician Sejm (1908–14). In 1918–19 he served as secretary of public health in the State Secretariat of the Western Ukrainian National Republic. After that he was the director of the Narodnia Lichnytsia society in Lviv (1923–31). As a leading member of the Ukrainian Labor party, he was an influential figure in the establishment of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO). He was elected a delegate from UNDO to the Polish Sejm in 1928, but resigned shortly afterwards. Kurovets was also a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Physicians’ Society, and chairman of the advisory council of the Dilo publishing house (1921–31). He published many scholarly and popular articles and pamphlets on medical and other topics.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]