Lishchynsky, Ivan

Lishchynsky, Ivan [Ліщинський, Іван; Liščyns'kyj], b 8 September 1883 in Pidmykhalia, Kalush county, Galicia, d 8 February 1941 in Lviv. Educator and civic and political leader. A teacher by profession, under the Western Ukrainian National Republic he served as school inspector of the Drohobych district (1918–19). After the First World War he edited Uchytel’s’ke slovo (1921–2) and was president of the Organization of the Ukrainians of Lviv (1922–6) and of the Ukrainian Teachers' Mutual Aid Society (1925–9). He was also active in politics, first as a member of the executive and the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Labor party and then as a deputy of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance to the Sejm (1928–30). In 1930 he was imprisoned in Brest by the Polish authorities for his political activities.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]