INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF FEDOR POTUSHNYAK (1910 – 1960) – MEMBER OF THE HUNGARIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, COLLABORATOR OF THE SUBCARPATHIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORICAL FACULTY OF UZHHOROD UNIVERSITY
Journal: Scientific Herald of Uzhhorod University Series History
Year: 2025

In this article, the author tries to draw attention to the figure of the ethnographer, folklorist, writer, poet, translator, philosopher, archaeologist, and historian Fedor Potushniak, who in February of this year turned 115 years old and 65 years old since his death. Fedir Mykhailovych Potushnyak was a typical local intellectual with a dramatic fate in the tragic 20th century. Born into an ordinary rural Ruthenian family, he had good financial support from his parents, graduated from Charles Un