PARTICIPATION OF IVAN BOBERSKYI IN THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY ON THE EVE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Abstract

The study based on the documents and periodicals of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSH), correspondence of Ivan Boberskyi, Mikhail Hrushevsky, Ivan Dzhidzhora, documents of the Ukrainian Gymnastic Society "Sokil-Batko" in Lviv, reports of the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, I. Boberskyi works and highlights his participation in the NTSH during 1902-1914. As a regular member of the NTSH in 1902-1903, he took an active part in its activities. The cooperation of I. Boberskyi with the NTSH in the preparation and printing of his works, as well as society's publishing activity, is considered. Some of Ivan Bobersky's publications were reviewed on the pages of "NTSH Notes" and received a favorable review. It is necessary to pay due attention to his scrupulous work on the translation of the "Ocherk istorii ukrainskoho naroda" by Mykhailo Hrushevskyi in German. The author notes that I. Boberskyi cooperated with the NTSH as the head of the Ukrainian gymnastic society "Sokil-Batko", especially during the period of making ready and holding of the I and II Regional Shifts in Lviv (1911, 1914). Keywords Ivan Boberskyi, Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSH), Sokil-Batko Society, Lviv, publishing.