Hlushkevych, Mariian

Hlushkevych, Mariian [Глушкевич, Маріян; Hluškevyč, Marijan], b 31 March 1877 in Dydova, Turka county, Galicia, d 17 July 1935 in Lviv. Galician community leader and lawyer. Before the First World War Hlushkevych studied in Russia, where he became an active member of the Russophile movement among Galician Ukrainians. During the war he returned to Galicia with the Russian army, and was appointed mayor of Peremyshl. After the Revolution of 1917, while living in eastern Ukraine, he gradually left the Russophiles. He returned to Galicia in 1921 and became a professor of law at the Lviv (Underground) Ukrainian University. Later, he defended Ukrainians in political trials. He was a vice-president of the Union of Ukrainian Lawyers in Lviv and an active member of the Polish Bar Association.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]