Dmytro Chyzhevsky

Dmytro Ivanovych Chyzhevsky (March 23, 1894 – April 18, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born scholar of Slavic literature, history, culture and philosophy.

Biography Early life

Dmytro Chyzhevsky was born of Russian-Polish-Ukrainian ancestry on 23 March 1894, at Oleksandriia, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, near the Black Sea. His first interest was philosophy, and his teachers were Nikolay Lossky, Vasyl Zenkivskyi, and Georgy Chelpanov. From 1911 to 1913 he studied philosophy and literature at the University of St. Petersburg (1924—1986), who was a professor of Slavic studies at various universities in the United States, particularly Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan).

Work

Chyzhevsky wrote on a broad range of subjects, including folklore, history, philosophy, linguistics, Slavic and comparative literature. He wrote monographs on the Ukrainian philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda (1974) and the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1934). He is also known for his studies of the Russian writer, Nikolai Gogol.