Matthew Stachiw
Ukrainian politician (1895–1978)
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Matthew Ivanovych Stachiw[a] (November 30, 1895 – June 2, 1978) was a Ukrainian politician.
Matthew Stachiw | |
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Матвій Стахів | |
| Born | November 30, 1895 |
| Died | June 2, 1978 (aged 82) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Early life
Stachiw was born on 30 November 1895 in Nyshche, which was then part of Austria-Hungary.[1] He was born into a rural Galician family.[1] He served in the Ukrainian Army between 1918 and 1920. Afterwards received a LL.D. from the University of Prague. He worked as a lawyer in Lviv, university teacher at the people's university "Samoosvita" and editor of several publications.[2][1] For example, he edited the party publications of Hromadskyi holos, Proty khvyl’, and Zhyve slovo.[1]
Stachiw represented the Ukrainian Socialist-Radical Party in the Executive Committee of the Labour and Socialist International between August 1931 and 1940.[3] Previous to this, he had been party secretary of the Ukrainian Socialist-Radical Part from 1925 to 1929.[1]
After the end of World War II, he emigrated to Germany as a postwar displaced person initially, where he co-founded the Ukrainian National Council and taught sociology and administrative law at institutions such as the Ukrainian Free University in Munich.[1] He then moved to the United States in 1949.[1] There, he was head of the Shevchenko Scientific Society for its United States branch and a member of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the World Congress of Free Ukrainians, and the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee.[1][4] As of the early 1960s, Stachiw served as editor of the weekly newspaper Narodna Volya (issued from Scranton).[5]
He died on 2 June 1978 in either El Cajon or San Diego in California.[1][4]