“LEGEND OF THE FACULTY OF HISTORY”. IN MEMORY OF YAROSLAV YURIIOVYCH ZABOROVSKYI

Abstract

The article is devoted to the biography of Yaroslav Yuriiovych Zaborovskyi, the outstanding scientist, researcher of the history of agrarian relations of Republican Rome, the Christian Church, pedagogue, professor of a number of higher educational institutions in Ivano-Frankivsk. The main milestones of his life and creative path in Lviv, Leningrad, Drohobych, Ivano-Frankivsk are reflected in the article. His personal contribution to the development of the historical faculty of Vasyl Stefanyk Pedagogical Institute in Ivano-Frankivsk (since 1992 – Precarpathian University, which received the national status in 2004) has been reproduced by the authors. His significant contribution to Ukrainian antiquity studies in the period of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as well as the investigation of history of the Greek Catholic Church after its exit from the underground in 1989, and his personal ties with the episcopate of the structure restored from the underground are underlined in the paper. The authors emphasize the scientist’s merits in the work of the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Seminary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), the exploration of biographies of the repressed clergy, a part of which, according to the results of scientific studies of the scientist, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. A considerable attention is focused on the disclosure of pedagogical activities of Yaroslav Yuriiovych Zabo­rovskyi, particularly in the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education. The article is supplemented by an exhaustive bibliography of works written at different times by the scientist, including five individual monographs.

Keywords:  Yaroslav Yuriiovych Zaborovskyi, historical education, antiquity studies, history of the Church, university, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Leningrad.