Starosolsky, Vladimir Akimovich

Vladimir Starosolsky was born on January 8, 1878 in the city of Yaroslav in the family of the chairman of the district court, Akim Starosolsky (1822–1884) and the polonized Austrian Julia Rapp (1845–1919). He spent his childhood and youth in Yaroslav.

The native language of Starosolsky was Polish, however, starting from high school, he switched to Ukrainian.

In 1906 he married (1881-1941), the daughter of a Ukrainian public figure, ethnographer, and teacher Vladimir Shukhevych . He had three children: Igor , and .

Education and research

In 1889-1896 he studied at the Yaroslavl Gymnasium, and in 1896-1900 - at the Law Faculty of Lviv University . In 1903 he received a doctorate in law. In 1903-1912 (with interruptions) he continued his legal education at the Universities of Berlin , Graz and Heidelberg . In 1909, he passed the bar exam and opened a practice in Lviv. In 1918 he became a professor at Kamenetz-Podolsk State Ukrainian University .

Starosolsky began to engage in scientific research in his student years under the guidance of Professor Stanislav Dnistryansky . Thanks to him, and on the basis of published scientific articles, Starosolsky received a state scholarship to continue his studies at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.

Under the guidance of a professor of Heidelberg University, a German lawyer G. Jelinek, Starosolsky began writing a scientific work on the law of the majority - “Das Majoritätsprinzip”, published in 1916.

In 1921, Starosolsky became a professor at the newly formed Ukrainian Free University in Vienna .

Social and political activities

Starosolsky began to be interested in political ideas in the upper classes of the gymnasium, in particular socialism (including Marxism) ^[1] . He took an active part in Ukrainian student life, was one of the leaders of the Ukrainian youth movement in the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the late XIX - early XX centuries.

In 1897, Starosolsky joined the , later, in the early 1900s, he became one of its leaders.

In 1898, as a student at Vienna University, he became a member of the Ukrainian student organization in Vienna, and on March 26 - September 4, 1899, was its head ^[2] .

On July 13, 1899, Starosolsky was one of the organizers and an active participant in the congress (veche) of Ukrainian students of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, at which it was decided to create a Ukrainian university in Lviv. Then the youth organization was founded , Starosolsky became one of its leaders, and in October 1899 - chairman of the editorial committee of the journal of the same name , the press organ of this organization.

On July 14, 1900, the II Congress of the Ukrainian students of Austria-Hungary in Lviv was organized by the leadership of Young Ukraine, and Starosolsky was elected its chairman. It was the first time that a demand was put forward for the creation of a Ukrainian university in Lvov ^[3] , and the state independence of Ukraine ^[4] became the main issue in the activity of Ukrainian students.

Starosolsky was one of the organizers of the secession of Ukrainian students of Lviv University in 1901-1902 in protest against the repressive measures of the administration of the Lviv University. This initiative was supported by the III (October 8, 1901) and IV (November 19, 1901) congresses of Ukrainian students of Austria-Hungary in Lviv.

In 1902, Starosolsky was one of the organizers of a peasant strike in Galicia, and also became a member of the foreign committee of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party .

In 1903, Starosolsky became a member of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party , and in 1907, the Volya workers' society, which was led by the USDP.

Starosolsky was one of the organizers and the first leader (chief ataman) of the legion of Sich Riflemen .

After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Starosolsky became a member of the Main Ukrainian Rada from the USPP, since 1915 - the General Ukrainian Rada and the Battle Council of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (OSS). In 1915-1918 he was a permanent representative of the Battle Council at the OSS Legion. Collaborated with the magazine . Starosolsky, along with Dmitry Vitovsky, was the main ideologist of the OSS ^{[5] [6] [7]} .

In 1916 he became a member of the secret society of the OSS - .

Collaborated with the Ukrainian Liberation Union in Vienna. In October 1918 he was a member of the Ukrainian General Military Committee , which prepared the November 1918 uprising in Lviv . During the Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918-1919 he was imprisoned in a Polish prisoner of war camp in Domby (near Krakow ). He was released in October 1919 by the Red Cross and transferred to the government of the UPR .

From October 1919 to April 1920, he was Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UPR Directory in the government of Isaac Mazepa . In January - February 1920, he participated in the negotiations of the UNR Directory with Poland.

In 1920-1927 Starosolsky was in exile in Austria and Czechoslovakia , then returned to Lviv .

Advocacy

Staroselsky began law practice in 1901 as an assistant lawyer in the law office of K. Charnik in Lviv. Then he worked with Lviv lawyers, including M. Grek, K. Levitsky and M. Shukhevych. In 1908 he took part in the defense of Miroslav Sichinsky . In 1909, he passed the exams, took the oath, and took up the practice of law in Lviv. He opened private practice in November 1911.

The last years of life

After the accession of Western Ukraine to the USSR in September 1939, he was appointed professor of state law at Lviv State University . A few weeks later, the NKVD was arrested and on October 25, 1940 sentenced in Kiev to 8 years under article 58-4 of the USSR Criminal Code . Until January 1941, he was serving his sentence in Lukyanovskaya prison , and later was transferred to Siberia.

He died on February 25, 1942 in a camp in Mariinsk (now - Kemerovo region , Russian Federation).

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• National and social moment in Ukraine іstorії. - Vienna, 1915.
• Das Majoritätsprinzip. - Wien; Leipzig: Deuticke, 1916 .-- X, 158 S.
• Theory of the National. - Vienna, 1921; New York, 1966; Kiev, 1998.
• State and political law: 2 t. - Podebrady: UGA Publishing House, 1923-1925.
• Methodological problem in national science about power // Jubilee zbirnik in honor of prof. Stanislav Dnistryansky. - Prague, 1925.
• Prior to nutrition about the form of power // ZNTSh. - Lviv: Printing House of the Scientific Society named after Shevchenko, 1925. - T. 138−140
• Bohdan Kistiakowskyj und das russische soziologische Denken. - Berlin, 1929.
• Political law: lecture course. - Regensburg; New Ulm: UTGI, 1950 .-- 373 p.

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