[VASILY MARKUS]

On October 15, 2012, Professor Vasyl Markus, an outstanding Ukrainian scientist, political scientist and public figure, a full foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ended his life in Chicago (Illinois, USA) at the age of ninety.

Markus was born on December 27, 1922 in the village of Bedevlya, Tyachiv district, Transcarpathia, which at that time was part of Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the national school in his native village, and from the gymnasium in Khust. In June 1942, for his activities as a member of an underground Ukrainian youth organization, he was arrested by the Hungarian authorities, sentenced to a five-year prison term, but in December of the same year he was granted amnesty. Taking advantage of the new circumstances, V. Markus entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Budapest University in the fall of 1943, where he simultaneously attended courses in Slavic studies, Latin and German. At the same time, in his youth, he showed a great interest in fiction, publishing poetry and prose in the Literary Resurrection. In 1944-1945, he taught at the Ukrainian gymnasium in Beregovo, without leaving public activities, in particular in the Youth Union of Transcarpathian Ukraine. In the summer of 1945, he left Ukraine and soon arrived in Germany, where he continued to study Slavic studies and pedagogy in Munich. In the same place, in 1948, at the Ukrainian Free University, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Archaic properties of Middle Carpathian dialects".

A rather long and scientifically fruitful period of V. Markus ' life is connected with France, where he arrived at the end of 1951 from Switzerland, where he briefly studied political science at the University of Freiburg. The French town of Sarcelles near Paris, a landmark for the academic community of post-war Ukrainian emigration, also plays an important role in the scientific biography of V. Markus. Here he became secretary of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTS) and one of the leading editorial staff of the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies, with which he worked closely in later years, after moving to the United States. In 1956, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris with a doctoral dissertation on "International Relations of the Ukrainian SSR and its status in international law, 1917-1923". In 1957, he graduated from the Higher Institute

He received a diploma in international relations, defending the work " the annexation of Transcarpathian Ukraine to Soviet Ukraine. 1944 - 1945". Both works were published as monographs in Leuven (Belgium) and in Paris in French: "L'incorporation de l'Ukraine subcarpathique a l'Ukraine sovietique" (1956, Ukrainian edition 1992), "Relations exterieures de l'Ukraine sovietique et son statut en droit international, 1917-1923" (1959 d.).

During his stay in France, Markus also proved to be an active figure in Ukrainian socio-political life in exile. In particular, he was a long-term chairman of the Central Union of Ukrainian Students, belonged to the leading members of foreign parts of the OUN. Subsequently, he joined the democratic wing of this organization-the OUN Abroad (ounz). taking the position of Deputy Chairman of the political council. He was a member of the foreign representation of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council, was a co-editor of the magazine "Ukrainian Independent", co-founder of the Makhnovsky Society of Ukrainian student youth and editor of the magazine "Phoenix", a member of Plast.

In 1959, Markus moved permanently to the United States. At first, he worked for the Prolog Experimental Publishing Association and simultaneously taught Russian at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana). Since 1962-long-term lecturer in political science at Loyola University in Chicago: associate Professor (until 1967), extraordinary Professor (until 1972), ordinary professor (until 1990). For several years he taught at the Rome center of the same university, held the position of professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Rome Since 1973, he was Director of the UCU Chicago branch, and from 1985 to 1988, he was head of the UCU summer courses in Rome.

In the United States, Markus ' talent was fully developed not only as an outstanding scholar of the All-American university level, but also as an organizer of Ukrainian studies research centers and institutions that emerged thanks to the efforts of such enthusiasts from the academic community of the diaspora. In particular, it is worth noting the fruitful work of Professor Markus as a full member of the NTS in the historical and Philosophical section (for some time he was its head) and the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, a member of the leadership of the American Society for the Study of Religion under Communism (in the 1980s), the American Society for the Promotion of Slavic Studies, and the American Society of International Law. American Society for Political Science, member of the Ukrainian Theological Scientific Society, founder and Chairman of the Ukrainian Academic Club in Chicago.

Among other areas of his activity: the Ukrainian Patriarchal movement (deputy chairman, employee of the Patriyarkhat magazine), the Polish-Ukrainian-Serbian-Czechoslovak Friendship Alliance in Chicago (member of the leadership of this organization), Radio Liberty and Voice of America (political commentator on the social development of the USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Central and Eastern European Countries), the Society for Assistance to the People's Movement of Ukraine in Chicago (Deputy Chairman), the Coordinating Committee for Assistance to Ukraine in the United States (Deputy Chairman), the Commission for Communication and Information of Transcarpathian Ukrainians in the Diaspora (Chairman, editor of its "information leaflet"), etc.

After the declaration of independence of Ukraine, Professor Markus served as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Diaspora. since 1988) establishes close business relations with a number of scientific institutions in Ukraine, primarily with academic institutes of sociology and history of Ukraine. The result of this collaboration was, in particular, the preparation and publication of the "Australian" volume of " ED "(1995), as well as the first and second books of the" American " volume of the encyclopedia (2009, 2012). In addition, ten numbers of the journal "Ukrainian Diaspora" appeared - as part of a joint scientific project of the editorial board " EDM " and

Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1992-1997, co-editors V. Markus and V. Evtukh). Another component of this project was the publishing series "Library of the Ukrainian Diaspora", which included the publication of V. Troshchinsky's monograph " Interwar Ukrainian emigration in Europe as a historical and socio-political phenomenon "(1994). Bachinsky "Ukrainian Immigration in the United States of America" (1994) and " Ukrainian Diaspora Cooperation: a Historical Review (1930-1995) "(1996), etc.

In general, the 1990s and 2000s were particularly successful under the review of the scientific and popularizing activities of Professor V. Markus both in the USA and especially in Ukraine. During this period, he published dozens of journal articles, as well as separate works " political and state-legal evolution of Ukrainian Transcarpathia "(1993) and "Beresteya Union from a modern perspective" (1995), and edited the collections " Transcarpathia under Hungary 1938-1944 "(1999) and " Transcarpathia in the European Union "(2003); under the pseudonym Vasily Marko publishes "memory (literary attempts-publications of the 40s" (1995).

For his active participation in state-forming processes, significant contribution to the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the third degree (2008).

The sad news from faraway America about the passing into eternity of Professor Vasily Markus, whom we personally knew and with whom we worked closely, painfully echoed in the impudent hearts. Meeting and collaborating with this famous scientist and bright person was a real gift of fate for us, a new scientific birth. Meetings with him, his wise words, deep erudition, humanistic, humane communication style will be remembered all our lives. For a long time, we were united not only by scientific and creative ties, but also by friendly kinship relations with Professor V. Markus and his wife, Doctor of bright memory, co-editor of" ED " Ms. Darka.

We express our heartfelt condolences to the Markus family and the entire Ukrainian community in Chicago and grieve with them.

V. B. Evtukh (Kiev), V. N. Tkachenko (Kiev), V. P. Troshchinsky (Kiev)

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