Korovytsky, Ivan

Korovytsky, Ivan [Коровицький, Іван; Korovyc'kyj], b 4 June 1907 in Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Volhynia, d 8 June 1991 in South Bound Brook, New Jersey. Writer, scholar, and bibliographer. After receiving an MA in theology from Warsaw University, he taught Old Church Slavonic and the history of the Ukrainian Orthodox church there and ran the Orthodox Metropolitan’s Museum in Warsaw. A postwar refugee and displaced person in Germany, he taught at the Theological Academy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Munich (1946–8). After immigrating to the United States of America in the late 1940s, he taught at the Saint Sophia Seminary in South Bound Brook, New Jersey. He is the author of a poetry collection (1936), stories for children, and a work on the destruction of churches in the Kholm region (under the pseudonym Zhukiv, 1940). In the United States he has edited several Ukrainian monographs and written many articles on the history of the Ukrainian church and literature, many of them for the émigré Entsyklopediia ukraïnoznavstva. A full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States and an associate of the Lypynsky East European Research Institute in Philadelphia, he headed the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA Library in South Bound Brook.

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