Ivan Babij
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Ivan Babij (March 5, 1893 in the village of Dobromirka – July 25, 1934 in Lwów) was a Ukrainian educator from Eastern Galicia, captain of the Ukrainian Galician Army, principal of a Ukrainian high school in Lwów, and activist of the Ukrainian Catholic Action.
Babij graduated from a high school in Tarnopol, then studied classical philology at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów. Following the start of World War I in 1914 he was called into the Austro-Hungarian Army, where he served in the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. In 1918-1919 he fought against Poland in the Ukrainian Galician Army and in 1920 participated as an officer of the Ukrainian People's Army in the Kyiv Offensive of the joint Polish-Ukrainian forces.
Later, he became a principal of a high school in Brzeżany, then, in 1931, took the post of principal of a Ukrainian high school in Lwów. He organized the Youth for Christ festival in western Ukraine.[1] Babij openly criticized the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which resulted in death sentence, passed by the Revolutionary Tribunal of the OUN. He was murdered by OUN's activist Mykhaylo Car.[2] The assassination was publicly condemned by the Ukrainian Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky.
Sources[]
- Andrzej Chojnowski, Jan Bruski - "Ukraina", Warszawa 2006, ISBN 978-83-7436-039-5
References[]
- ^ Myroslav Shkandri. (2015). Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press. pg. 30
- ^ . Нарис історії ОУН [History of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]. НАРИС ІСТОРІЇ ОУН (in Ukrainian). Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- 1893 births
- 1934 deaths
- People from Zbarazh Raion
- People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
- Ukrainian educators
- Ukrainian military personnel
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
- Ukrainian Galician Army people
- 20th-century Ukrainian educators
- Victims of OUN-B killings
- Ukrainian people stubs