Dembytsky, Teofil [Дембицький, Теофіль; Dembyc'kyj], b 1845 in Slovita, Peremyshliany county, Galicia, d 15 July 1915 in Vienna. Galician community figure, lawyer in Kolomyia, child-welfare activist, contributor to Ukrainian cultural institutions. Dembytsky willed his estate, Beleluia, to the Shevchenko Scientific Society and made substantial contributions to other Ukrainian institutions.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]


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