Voloshchak, Ostap

Voloshchak, Ostap or Evstakhii [Волощак, Остап; Vološčak], b 1 October 1835 in Yavoriv, Galicia, d 10 July 1918 in Vienna. Botanist; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1914 and of the Vienna Academy of Sciences and the Cracow Academy of Sciences. A graduate in law and biology of Vienna University, he was a founding member of the Sich student society of Vienna in 1868. From 1884 he was a professor of zoology and botany at the Lviv Polytechnical Institute. He researched the flora of the Carpathian Mountains, particularly the Eastern Carpathians and Pokutia.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]