Volodymyr Potulnytskyi
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Volodymyr Potulnytskyi (Ukrainian: Володимир Потульницький; birth July 6, 1958, Lviv) is a Ukrainian historian who specializes in European medieval history, Ukrainian political science, intellectual history, historiosophy and historiography of Eastern Europe.
Potulnytskyi studied at the historical faculty of Lviv University within the major Medieval European History and minors History of Early Modern Europe (1500—1815) from 1975 to 1980.[1] In 1984, he presented at L'viv University his first thesis 'Political Culture of Creative Personality' and became candidate of science in philosophy. In 1989–1992, studied at the historical faculty of Kiev University within the major Modern Ukrainian History. In 1992, he defended his second thesis ‘The Concepts of Statehood in Ukrainian Historical and Political Science (1918—1939)’ and got a doctorate in ‘Ukrainian and Global History’.
From 1999 till 2002 was the professor of the Chair of Medieval Ukrainian History and Special Historical Disciples in the University of Lviv where he received the rank of full professor in 2002. From 1992 Potulnytskyi is working as Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Foreign Sources, M. Hruschevskyi Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[2]
Career and Main Interests
Potulnytskyi's fields of research are Political theory, history of political thought, the history of ideologies, discourse history.[3] He has published in Ukraine and abroad (Germany, Japan, Israel, Canada, Great Britain, Poland, Czech Republic), and in internationally leading journals, such as Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Acta Slavica Japonica, Journal of East- European Jewry Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ukrains'kyi istorychnyj zurnal.[4] He is also a founder of his own research school in historiosophy and intellectual history.[5][6][7]
Ukrainian Historian
Volodymyr Potulnytskyip has made contributions on the theoretical and historical aspects of the influences of the dominant nations (Germany, Russia, Poland) on the development of Ukrainian historical and political thought in the 18th-20th centuries. He was the first scholar in the post-soviet space to solve the problems of integrating country's own version of the past in global and European history with shedding a new light on the problems of Russo — Ukrainian, Polish — Ukrainian, German — Ukrainian and Jewish — Ukrainian Relations.[8][9][10]
He has worked in the field of diplomatic history, and, incorporating in his last monograph the noval archival materials from Ukraine, Switzerland, USA, etc. was able to provide a concrete picture of diplomatic intercourse between former Het'man of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadskyi, and German, Japanese, British military and political officials in the crucial years of 1926–1943.[11][12]
