Dmytro Antonovych Дмитро Антонович | |
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Secretary/Minister of Naval Affairs | |
In office January 6, 1918 – February 9, 1918 | |
Prime Minister | Volodymyr Vynnychenko Vsevolod Holubovych |
Preceded by | position created |
Succeeded by | position disbanded |
Minister of Arts | |
In office December 26, 1918 – February 13, 1919 | |
Prime Minister | Volodymyr Chekhivsky |
Preceded by | position created |
Succeeded by | position disbanded |
Personal details | |
Born | (1877-11-14)November 14, 1877 Kyiv,Russian Empire |
Died | October 12, 1945(1945-10-12) (aged 67) Prague,Czechoslovakia |
Political party | RUP,USDRP |
Spouse | Kateryna Antonovych (nee Serebriakova) |
Children | Marko Antonovych Mykhailo Antonovych Maryna Rudnytska |
Occupation | historian, politician, diplomat |
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Dmytro Antonovych (14 November 1877, inKyiv – 12 October 1945, inPrague) was aUkrainian politician and art historian.
Professor Dmytro Antonovych was the son of two Ukrainian historians: his father wasVolodymyr Antonovych and his mother wasKateryna Antonovych-Melnyk (1859–1942), an archaeologist[1] from the city ofKhorol (today –Poltava Oblast). He married the artist and art historianKateryna Antonovych, and was the father of Marko Antonovych and Mykhailo Antonovych.
In 1900–1905, he was one of the founders and leaders of theRevolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), established in 1900 in the city ofKharkiv, and from 1905, of theUkrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (USDRP).[2]
Antonovych was a member of theUkrainian Central Council, and he served as the minister of naval affairs of theUkrainian People's Republic, in cabinets headed byVolodymyr Vynnychenko andVsevolod Holubovych (1917-1918), and the minister of arts inVolodymyr Chekhivsky’s government (1918/1919).[3] Then Antonovych was the president of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission of the UNR inRome.
His works includeEstetychne vykhovannia Shevchenka (Shevchenko's Aesthetic Education, 1914),Ukraïns'ke mystetstvo (Ukrainian Art, 1923),Trysta rokiv ukraïns'koho teatru (1619–1919) (Three Hundred Years of Ukrainian Theater [1619–1919], 1925),T. Shevchenko iak maliar (T. Shevchenko, the Artist, 1937), andDeutsche Einflüsse auf die ukrainische Kunst (1942).[4]