Kost Levitsky
| Kost Levytsky Кость Леви́цький |
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| Chairman of State Secretariat of West Ukraine | |
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In office November 9, 1918 – January 4, 1919 |
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| President |
Yevhen Petrushevych (as chairman of council) |
| Preceded by | post created |
| Succeeded by | Sydir Holubovych |
| Secretary of Finance of West Ukraine | |
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In office November 9, 1918 – January 4, 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | himself |
| Preceded by | post created |
| Succeeded by | Sydir Holubovych |
| Deputy to Imperial Council | |
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In office 1907–1918 |
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| Deputy to Galician Diet | |
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In office 1908–1914 |
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| Leader of National Democratic Party | |
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In office 1902–1919 |
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| Preceded by | Julian Romanchuk |
| Succeeded by | ? |
| Personal details | |
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Kost Antonovych Levytsky November 18, 1859 Tysmenytsya, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria |
| Died | November 12, 1941 (aged 81) Lviv, General Government |
| Resting place | Yanivsky cemetery, Lviv |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Ukrainian National Democratic Party General Ukrainian Council (1914-16) |
| Alma mater | Lviv University (1884) |
| Occupation | lawyer, politician, financial expert, civic activist |
Kost Levytsky (Ukrainian: Кость Леви́цький; 1859 – 1941) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a founder of the Ukrainian National Democratic movement and the leader of the State Representative Body of the Ukrainian government declared on June 30, 1941
Levytsky was born on November 18, 1859 in the settlement of Tysmenytsia of today’s Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast into the family of a Greek Catholic priest Antin Levytsky, who was in particular the priest in Nyzhniv. After finishing the Stanislaviv gymnasium he studied at Law faculties of Lviv and Vienna Universities. In 1884 he was awarded the Doctor’s degree in law, and in 1890 opened the barrister’s office in Lviv.
Kost Levytsky took active part in public and political life in his student years, he was one of the leaders of Academic Fraternity, the Circle of Law. From the first years of his barrister’s practice K. Levytsky was a practical advocate of the rights and freedoms of people. He united his professional activity with that in the sphere of Ukrainian enterprises, he was a co-founder and leading figure in the economic associations Zorya, People’s trade, Dniester, Province Credit Union. At the same time he was a well-known scientist in law, translated foreign laws into Ukrainian, worked with Ukrainian law terminology; he had published German-Ukrainian Law Dictionary, a series of popular works in law for the broad circles of Galician people, founded such professional editions as Chasopys pravnycha (Law periodical) and Zhyttia i pravo (Life and Law) and was their editor.
Kost Levytsky was a patriarch of Ukrainian political life, leader of the land's first political organization Narodna Rada (People’s Council, 1885), a cofounder and a head of Ukrainian National Democratic Party. In 1907 he was elected an ambassador of the Austrian parliament, in 1908, that of Galician Sejm, headed the ambassador’s clubs. He fought for the national aspirations of Ukrainian people. K. Levytsky was the author of the conception of the national movement development through evolution, organic work and broad political work in masses; he was the adherent of the strategic course for Galicia autonomy as the first step to ward statehood. He favoured development of the mass Ukrainian societies, units of intellectuals, peasants, youths, the Sokil-Sich movement.
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