Tamaš Hryb

Tamaš Hryb (, Tamash Hryb, 7 March 1895 — 21 January 1938) was a Belarusian politician, journalist and writer.

Early life Tamaš Hryb was born into a peasant family in the village of Paliany After the February Revolution, he became a full-time politician organising Belarusian soldiers and workers in the western part of the Russian Empire.

Alongside Paluta Badunova and Jazep Mamońka, Hryb co-founded the in 1918 and became its leader. For a short period of time in 1919, he published a Belarusian socialist newspapers: Hramadzianin (, the Citizen ) in Wilno After six issues, the Rodny kraj newspaper was closed and its editor arrested by the occupying Polish authorities.

Emigration

After 1921, Tamaš Hryb settled in Prague, where he received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Charles University in 1928. He founded and edited several periodicals dedicated to Belarusian studies and the Belarusian national liberation.

Tamaš Hryb founded and developed the Belarusian collection at the National Library of Czechoslovakia; he was also one of the co-founders and a long-time director of the Belarusian Archives in Prague.

Unlike some politicians of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, Hryb did not return to the Soviet Belarus in the 1920s and actively opposed the cooperation of the Belarusian national movement with the Soviets. Many of those who went back to Belarus or even just visited it, such as Francišak Aliachnovič and Branislaŭ Taraškievič, eventually became victims of Soviet repressions in Belarus.

Tamaš Hryb died in Prague on 21 January 1938 and was cremated on 25 January 1938. He was buried at the Olšany Cemetery in Prague.