Nadraga, Oleksander

Nadraga, Oleksander [Надраґа, Олександер], b 15 October 1885 in Berezhany, Galicia, d 3 April 1962 in Sambir, Galicia. Jurist; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. After graduating in law and political science from Lviv University (1911) he worked in the Austrian civil service in Stanyslaviv. During the Ukrainian-Polish War in Galicia, 1918–19, and the period of Ukrainian independence he was a commissioner of Stanyslaviv county. After the war he went into private practice in Lviv and taught Roman law and civil law at the Lviv (Underground) Ukrainian University (1921–4), the Greek Catholic Theological Academy (1932–9), and Lviv University (1940–1). In 1944 he and his family were arrested and deported to Siberia by the Soviets. They returned to Galicia only in 1960.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]