Verhanovsky, Volodymyr [Вергановський, Володимир; Verhanovs'kyj], b 7 March 1876 in Lukavytsia Vyzhnia, Stryi county, Galicia, d 26 November 1946 in Pramer, Austria. Jurist and law scholar; from 1914 full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. After graduating in law from Lviv University (LLD, 1900) he conducted research in Berlin and Vienna and in 1908 began lecturing on Austrian civil law at Lviv University. In the interwar period he was a professor and dean of the law faculty at the Lviv (Underground) Ukrainian University (1921–3) and, from 1929, a member of the highest court of appeal in Galicia. He taught law at Lviv University (1939–41). His publications include Pro pobichnu interventsiiu (On Lateral Intervention, 1903) and Zmina pozovu (Altering the Summons, 1912).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]