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Leonid Ivanovych Rudnytzky (September 8, 1935 in Lviv, Ukraine) is a linguist, professor of German, Slavic and Ukrainian Studies, co-editor of numerous American and Ukrainian encyclopedias, and scholar of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Son of Ivan-Theodore Rudnytzky – a lawyer, UGA centurion, November rebellion (Lystopadovyj zryv) co-organizer (1918) and ZUNR military attaché – and Yulia Rudnytzka from the Luzhnytzky family. Leonid Rudnytzky belongs to those scholars who grew up among the Ukrainian emigration in American and German environments. Sometimes he would say, "I am an American scholar. Life made me so... The fate of Ukrainians in the diaspora was not easy at the beginning. Persecution, inadaptability to a new life, ignorance of the language and financial problems made life harder. “I saw and experienced it with many people who were close to me" - Rudnytzky would recall later. But there was some special consciousness in the immigrants’ minds – at any cost to pass the test of endurance and to stand on their own two feet. The important fact is that those people emigrated for political reasons. As time passed one could not stop admiring their spiritual purposefulness, sacrificial devotion to national affairs and high culture. There is no doubt that life conditions certainly contributed to the development of Rudnyzky’s tempered character as an individual and a scholar. == Biographical information == During the Second World War, in 1944, the Rudnytzky family moved to Germany. In 1951, at the age of 16 he lost his father and the following year moved to the United States with his mother. In 1958, got his undergraduate degree at La Salle College in Philadelphia. In 1960, earned an MA in Germanic Philology at the University of Pennsylvania. And in 1965 he finished and defended his doctoral dissertation "Franko’s translations of German literature" at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. In 1959 \ 1960, taught at La Salle University. Having started as an ordinary professor of Germanic and later Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature, he soon became “Habilitatio” Professor. In 1988–98 Rudnytzky taught at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome. Later, he was chosen to be the Director of the UCU (Ukrainian Catholic University) branch in Philadelphia. At the same time he became the Director of the Central and East European Studies Master’s Program at La Salle University. 1985–1986, 1989–1990, Chairman of the International Ivan Franko Society in the U.S. 1992–2006 – President of the World Council of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. For a long period of time Prof. Rudnytzky held the position of Dean of the Philology Department and was a member of the faculty of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. Between 1998 and 2004 he was its Rector. In 1994, he became a foreign scholar of NANU. (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). From 2004 and to the present day (2011) he is President of the "Saint Sophia" Religious Association of the Ukrainian Catholics in America. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leonid Rudnytzky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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