Ševčenko, Ihor
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Name (Latin)
Ševčenko, Ihor
Other forms of name
Shevchenko, Igorʹ
Shevchenko, Ihor
Date of birth
1922-02-10
Date of death
2009-12-26
Place of birth
Cambridge (Mass.)
Associate group
Harvard University
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
Occupation
Scholars
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1922
Sources of Information
- His Nicolas Cabasilas' "anti-Zealot" discourse, 1957.
- Hretsʹki rukopysy u zibranniakh Kyieva, 2000:t.p. verso (Ihor Shevchenko)
- New York times WWW site, Jan. 5, 2010(Ihor Sevcenko; b. Ihor Ivanovic Sevcenko, Feb. 10, 1922, Radosc, near Warsaw; d. Dec. 26 [2009], Cambridge, Mass., aged 87; leading scholar of Byzantine and Slavic history and literature who as a young man persuaded George Orwell to collaborate with him on a Ukrainian translation of Animal farm for distribution to refugees)
Wikipedia description:
Ihor Ševčenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Іванович Шевченко; 10 September 1922 – 26 December 2009) was a Polish-born philologist and historian of Ukrainian origin. He was a Byzantinist and paleo-Slavic professor of classical philology at Harvard University. He died 26 December 2009, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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