MAGISTRI NOBIS SUNT HONORANDI: VASILIJE (VASILJ) SIMOVIČ: SCIENTIST, SOCIAL WORKER, AND PROFESSOR

Vasilije Simovič (ВасильСімович, alias – ВерниволяВ., Сімартич, Васаген; cryptonym – В. С., Вв., В-я., В., Сім-ич;), 9/03/1880 – 13/03/1944, according to a family tradition, a descendant of Montenegrin family Simovićwhich, at the time of bishop Vasilije Petrović Njegoš, moved to Galicia. Vasilije Simovič is the youngest son of the family of Ivan Simovič, a school director from the Ternopil region. He graduated from the University in Chernivtsi in 1904. From his student days, he dealt with the social activity, and collaborated with the Ukrainian Revolutionary Party. In 1920 he published the Practical Grammar of the Ukrainian language. From 1920 to 1933 he taught at the Ukrainian Pedagogical University “M. Dragomanov” in Prague; from 1926 to 1930 he was the Rector of the University; he participated in the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is one of the editors of the Ukrainian General Encyclopedia in three parts (1930-1935); as of 1939 a professor and the dean of the Faculty of Philology; as of 1941 – the Rector of the Lviv University. He died in Lviv.