Andrella, Mykhailo (Андрелла, Михайло; pseudonym Оросвигівський; Orosvyhivsky [Orosvyhivs'kyj]), b 1637 in Rosvyhove (Orosvyhove) in Transcarpathia, d 1710 in Iza, Transcarpathia. Writer, polemicist, and priest. Andrella studied at the universities of Vienna, Bratislava, and Trnava. During his travels abroad he became a Catholic, but on coming home (in 1669) he returned to Orthodoxy and wrote sharp attacks on Catholicism and Protestantism in Logos (1691–2) and Obrona virnomu kazhdomu cheloviku (Defense of Every Faithful Man, 1697–1701). Some scholars consider Andrella a follower of Ivan Vyshensky, but he does not measure up to the great polemicist. His biography and a survey of his literary work can be found in Mykhailo Vozniak’s Istoriia ukraïns'koï literatury (A History of Ukrainian Literature, vol 3, 1924) and in Vasyl Mykytas's Ukraïns'kyi pys'mennyk-polemist Mykhailo Andrella (The Ukrainian Writer-Polemicist Mykhailo Andrella, 1960).

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