# Dmytro Chyzhevsky
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'''Dmytro Ivanovych Chyzhevsky''' ({{langx|uk|Дмитро Іванович Чижевський}}) (March 23, 1894 – April 18, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born scholar of [Slavic literature](/source/Slavic_literature), history, culture and philosophy.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Dmytro Chyzhevsky was born of Russian-Polish-Ukrainian ancestry on 23 March 1894, at [Oleksandriia](/source/Oleksandriia), in the [Kherson Governorate](/source/Kherson_Governorate) of the Russian Empire, near the [Black Sea](/source/Black_Sea). His first interest was philosophy, and his teachers were [Nikolay Lossky](/source/Nikolay_Lossky), Vasyl Zenkivskyi, and [Georgy Chelpanov](/source/Georgy_Chelpanov). From 1911 to 1913 he studied philosophy and literature at the [University of St. Petersburg](/source/University_of_St._Petersburg)[{{Cite web |url=http://russkiymir.ru/en/publications/140183/ |title=Vladimir Emelyanenko. Transcending the Narrow Frame of Mind: the Life of Dmitry Chezhevsky TRANSCENDING THE NARROW FRAME OF MIND: THE LIFE OF DMITRY CHEZHEVSKY |accessdate=10 August 2015 |archive-date=7 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607075501/http://russkiymir.ru/en/publications/140183/ }}] (1924—1986), who was a professor of Slavic studies at various universities in the United States, particularly [Wayne State University](/source/Wayne_State_University) (Detroit, [Michigan](/source/Michigan)).[{{Cite news|title=Tatjana Cizevska, 1924-1986|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/tatjana-cizevska-19241986/BE69C0983C649ABF3BB634FD9429EDFA|work=Slavic Review|date=1986|accessdate=2021-06-19|issn=0037-6779|doi=10.1017/S0037677900075252|pages=601–602|volume=45|issue=3|language=en|first=Kenneth N.|last=Brostrom|first2=Ralph T.|last2=Fisher|archive-date=6 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906015332/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/tatjana-cizevska-19241986/BE69C0983C649ABF3BB634FD9429EDFA}}]
== Work ==
Chyzhevsky wrote on a broad range of subjects, including [folklore](/source/folklore), [history](/source/history), [philosophy](/source/philosophy), [linguistics](/source/linguistics), [Slavic](/source/Slavic_literature) and [comparative literature](/source/comparative_literature). He wrote monographs on the Ukrainian philosopher [Hryhorii Skovoroda](/source/Hryhorii_Skovoroda) (1974) and the German philosopher [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](/source/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel) (1934). He is also known for his studies of the Russian writer, [Nikolai Gogol](/source/Nikolai_Gogol).[
{{cite book
| author1 = George N. Rhyne
| author2 = George V. Rhyne
| author3 = Edward J. Lazzerini
| title = The Supplement to the modern encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history
| year = 1995
| publisher = Academic International Press
| isbn = 978-0-87569-142-8
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m0tpAAAAMAAJ
| accessdate = 15 April 2012
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]
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{{cite book
| author1 = V. A. Smoliĭ
| author2 = Oksana Onoprii︠e︡nko
| title = Golden book of Ukrainian elite
| year = 2001
| publisher = Kompanii︠a︡ "I︠E︡vroimidz︠h︡"
| isbn = 978-966-7867-11-9
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LurkAAAAIAAJ
| accessdate = 15 April 2012
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{{cite book
| author = Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
| title = Journal of Ukrainian studies
| year = 1997
| publisher = Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5nVpAAAAMAAJ
| accessdate = 15 April 2012
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]
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{{cite book
| author = Robert A. Maguire
| title = Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays
| date = 1 May 1995
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| isbn = 978-0-691-01326-8
| pages = 293–294
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RL-hqKOSrukC&pg=PA293
| accessdate = 15 April 2012
}}
]
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{{cite book
| author = Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States
| title = Annals
| year = 1973
| publisher = Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=u_gTAQAAMAAJ
| accessdate = 15 April 2012
}}
]
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{{cite book
| author = Irene Rima Makaryk
| title = About the Harrowing of Hell
| date = 1 March 1989
| publisher = CIUS Press
| isbn = 978-0-919473-89-8
| pages = 36, 50–51
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=M0xRpxLe_GAC&pg=PA50
| accessdate = 15 April 2012
}}
]
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Category:1894 births
Category:1977 deaths
Category:Slavists
Category:Harvard University faculty
Category:Academic staff of Marburg University
Category:Academic staff of Heidelberg University
Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany
Category:Emigrants from West Germany to the United States
Category:Mensheviks
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