Ukrainian Galician teacher, public figure and historian, student of Mykhajlo Hrushevsky. Full member of the National Academy of Sciences (1922).
Biography.
He was born on December 2, 1873 in the village of Kramarivka (Kramarzówka), Yaroslavl County, Kingdom of Galicia and Volhynia, Austria-Hungary, now the Pruchnik Commune, Yaroslavl County, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland).
He studied at gymnasiums in the cities of Yaroslav and Stryi. In 1897 he graduated from the philosophical department of Lviv University, where he studied geography and history, and was a student of Mykhajlo Hrushevsky.
In 1898-1912, he worked in Ternopil as a teacher at the Higher Real School and Ukrainian Gymnasium (he taught geography, history, music, and singing). He took an active part in the activities of Ukrainian public organizations in Ternopil, in particular, he became a co-organizer and conductor of the Boyan Society (1901-1912). In 1911, he became the first director of the Chortkiv gymnasium of the Ukrainian society "Ridna Shkola".
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1921; he was a gymnasium teacher in Ternopil and Lviv, a long-time member of the Main Board of the Ridna Shkola (its chairman in 1923-1924 and 1926-1927) and the Teachers' Community (chairman in 1923-1924 and 1926-1928), an active member of the main department of the Prosvita Society. During the First World War, he was an employee of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine in the camps of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Germany.
Under Soviet rule, Terletsky worked as a researcher at the branch of the Institute of Ukrainian History of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (1948-1952) and at the Ivan Franko University.
Omelian Terletsky is the author of scientific and popular science works that were published in the Chronicle of Chervona Kalyna, ZNTSH, and separately; the most important of them are: "Political events in Gal. Rus in 1340" (1896), "Cossacks in White Russia 1654-1656" (1897), "History of the Ukrainian Community in Rashtat 1915-1918" (1919), "History of Ukrainian statehood" (2 vols., 1923-1924), "Ukraine as a barrier of culture and civilization before the steppe people" (1930), "Hetman's Ukraine and Zaporozhian. Sich" (1935) and others.
He died on February 13, 1958 in Lviv. He was buried in the family tomb, on the 57th field of Lychakiv Cemetery.
Works
Terletsky O. Ukrainians in Germany 1915-1918. Vol. 1 History of the Ukrainian community in Rastatt: "Ukrainska Nakladnia", 1919. - Vol. 1. - 429 p.
