Volodymyr Hnatiuk

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Hnatiuk was a writer, literary scholar, translator, journalist, and one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers. He was a close companion of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Ivan Franko. Hnatiuk focused primarily on West Ukraine, gathering information about folk songs, legends, customs and dialects. He served as secretary of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1899), editing “The Ukrainian Historical Journal”, and was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1902) and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1924). He was also the director of the Ukrainian Union of publishing.