Volodymyr Yaniv

Who was Volodymyr Yaniv?

Volodymyr Yaniv was a community and scouting leader in the 1930s, an activist in the OUN and the Ukrainian Military Organization, editor of numerous student and community publications, a professional psychologist and sociologist, and a Ukrainian poet. He was a professor of Psychology at the Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Hirschberg, professor of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich and its rector, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome, a publicist, poet, member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Yaniv completed his gymnasium studies in Lviv in 1928 and further studied history and psychology at the Lviv University. After incarceration at the Bereza Kartuska Detention Camp he completed his studies in Berlin with a dissertation on "The psychological changes of political prisoners". In 1946 he moved to Munich where took an active part in the life of the Ukrainian Free University. Yaniv wrote numerous works studying the effect of incarceration on the works of notable Ukrainian cultural figures such as Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Vasyl Symonenko, Ihor Kalynetz.