Vasyl’ Lev papers

Vasyl' Lev (1903-1991) was a linguist, literary scholar, and educator. He received his secondary education at a classical gymnasium and his higher education at Lviv University, where he earned a doctoral degree in Slavic philology (1930). From 1927 he taught at the Ukrainian girls gimnasium of the Basilian Sisters and at the Minor Seminary in Lviv; he later served as lecturer and then docent at Lviv University (1937-44). From 1945 he was in emigration in Germany. Lev was a teacher at the Ukrainian gymnasium in Bayreuth and at the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Hirschberg (1945-47), professor at the Ukrainian Free University (UVU) in Munich (1946-49, 1963-88), and head of the Union of Ukrainian Writers, Artists and Scholars in Mittenwald (1947-49). In 1949, he moved to the United States and settled in New York. He was professor at St. Basil Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut (1952-58), at Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania (1958-72), and at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Rome (from 1963), where he also served as dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (1972-85). He was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) (from 1947), longtime director of its Philological Section (from 1964), and head of several NTSh committees, including bibliographic, terminological, regional studies, and publications. He was also a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (UVAN), the Theological Scientific Society in Rome, and other institutions. Lev authored numerous works on religious, ethnographic and folkloristic studies, as well as linguistic and literary topics (including on A. Sheptytsky, T. Shevchenko, I. Franko, Marko Vovchok, and I. Kotliarevsky).

Source: Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Diaspora, Vol. 1, United States of America, Book 2: L-R. New York-Chicago, 2012, p. 11.