Josef Zastyretz

Yosyp Zastyrets was born on 15 August 1873 in the khutir of Romantsi, near Koniushkiv, now Brody urban hromada of the Zolochiv Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine.^[1]

He studied at the Brody Gymnasium, Lviv Theological Seminary, and Lviv University. In 1898 he was ordained a priest.^[1]

In 1900–1914, he worked as a catechist, teacher of history, German, and Ukrainian at Berezhany, Lviv (academic and Polish), and Ternopil gymnasiums. In Lviv, he was the head of the Prosvita reading room and the Ridna Shkola [uk] circle.^[1]

In Vienna, he initiated the installation of a memorial plaque on the house where Panteleimon Kulish and Ivan Puluj lived and translated the Bible into Ukrainian.^[1]

He founded the Princess Yaroslavna Women's Society in Ternopil, which in 1910 republished the collection Rusalka Dnistrova [uk] on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Markiian Shashkevych's birth.^[1][2]

In November 1915, the Viennese professor, Doctor of Philosophy Josef Zastyretz, nominated Ivan Franko for the Nobel Prize.^[3][4]

He died on 15 January 1943 in Lviv,^[1] where he was buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery.^[3]