Ukraińska filologia na uniwersytecie lwowskim w XIX wieku i w pierwszej połowie XX stulecia. Ludzie, idee, recepcje

The author analyzes the formation and evolution of Ukrainian Philology at the Lviv University from 1848 to 1939. In the context of this article, the history of Ukrainian philological studies is represented through such personalities as Yakov Holovatsky, Omelyan Ogonovsky, Alexander Kolessa, Ilarion Sventsitsky, Cyril Studinsky and Jan Janów. Part of them symbolizes the theological or clerical period of the development of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) philology in Galicia, the other part demonstrates the secularization of the Ukrainian humanities as well as the intellectuals themselves. The evolution of the Ukrainian studies at the Lviv University is a history of changing scientific paradigms: from post-romanticism to factographism and positivism or critical rationalism. The study also demonstrates the growth of the interrelation between the Ukrainian philologists on the Lviv and Kraków (Jagiellonian) University in the examined period. The history of Ukrainian Philology in Lviv is a history of ideological evolution and/or ideological hesitation in the Ukrainian intelligentsia between Ukrainophilism, Russophilism, political neutrality, Polonophilism and Austrophilism. It is also the result of the “tolerance within confrontation” – the ethno-social competition, struggle and compromise between the Ukrainian and Polish ideas in Galicia. In other words, it is a history of the Ukrainian intelligentsia and Ukrainian society in Lviv and in Galicia before the Second World War.