Bohdan Osadchuk

Osadchuk in 2005

Osadchuk, Krynica-Zdrój (Poland), September 8, 2005

Bohdan Osadchuk (1 August 1920 – 19 October 2011) was a Ukrainian diaspora historian and journalist.[1]

Osadchuk was born in Kolomyia. He was a professor at the Free University of Berlin, one of the most senior members of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU) of Munich, and a long-standing freelance writer for Kultura, a Polish emigre magazine published in Paris (editor Jerzy Giedroyc). In 2009 he was awarded a Bene Merito Honour medal by Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in recognition of scientific achievements and efforts to Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation.[2]

He died in Czechówka near Myślenice situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

He was an honorary doctorate of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 2006.

References

1. College history Archived September 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. Wręczenie przez ministra Radosława Sikorskiego odznaki Bene Merito Archived August 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine