Dmytro Antonovych
{{short description|Ukrainian politician}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Dmytro Antonovych
Дмитро Антонович
| caption =
| image = Дмитро Антонович.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| office = Secretary/Minister of Naval Affairs
| primeminister = Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Vsevolod Holubovych
| term_start = January 6, 1918
| term_end = February 9, 1918
| predecessor = position created
| successor = position disbanded
| office2 = Minister of Arts
| primeminister2 = Volodymyr Chekhivsky
| term_start2 = December 26, 1918
| term_end2 = February 13, 1919
| predecessor2 = position created
| successor2 = position disbanded
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|11|14}}
| birth_place = Kyiv, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|10|12|1877|11|14}}
| death_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia
| relations =
| occupation = historian, politician, diplomat
| spouse = Kateryna Antonovych (nee Serebriakova)
| children = Marko Antonovych
Mykhailo Antonovych
Maryna Rudnytska
| signature = Dmytro Antonovych Signature 1919.png
| magnum opus =
}}
Dmytro Antonovych (14 November 1877, in Kyiv – 12 October 1945, in Prague) was a Ukrainian politician and art historian.
Family
Professor Dmytro Antonovych was the son of two Ukrainian historians: his father was Volodymyr Antonovych and his mother was Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk (1859–1942), an archaeologist{{Cite web |last=Сьомочкіна-Рижко |first=О. М. |title=Антонович-Мельник Катерина Миколаївна |url=https://esu.com.ua/article-43012 |access-date=2024-10-13 |website=Енциклопедія Сучасної України |language=uk}} from the city of Khorol (today – Poltava Oblast). He married the artist and art historian Kateryna Antonovych, and was the father of Marko Antonovych and Mykhailo Antonovych.
Career
In 1900–1905, he was one of the founders and leaders of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), established in 1900 in the city of Kharkiv, and from 1905, of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (USDRP).[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages\A\N\AntonovychDmytro.htm Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Antonovych, Dmytro]
Antonovych was a member of the Ukrainian Central Council, and he served as the minister of naval affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic, in cabinets headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Vsevolod Holubovych (1917-1918), and the minister of arts in Volodymyr Chekhivsky’s government (1918/1919).[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/C/O/CouncilofNationalMinistersoftheUkrainianNationalRepublic.htm Council of National Ministers of the Ukrainian National Republic] Then Antonovych was the president of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission of the UNR in Rome.
His works include Estetychne 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), and Deutsche Einflüsse auf die ukrainische Kunst (1942).{{Cite web |title=Antonovych, Dmytro |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CA%5CN%5CAntonovychDmytro.htm |access-date=2023-07-24 |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CA%5CN%5CAntonovychDmytro.htm Antonovych, Dmytro in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]
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