KRYZHANIVSKYI V. M. Materials to biographical dictionary «Scientific and pedagogical staff of Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, 1952 – 1991» (letter «С, Ш, Х, Ю»)-

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      The report reconstructs courses of life and science of research and educational staff who worked in Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv Pedagogical University in Soviet time.

      Materials for biographic dictionary "Research and educational staff of Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hluhiv National Pedagogical University in 1952 – 1991". The report reconstructs courses of life and science of research and education staff who worked in Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hluhiv National Pedagogical University in Soviet time.

     Biography studies the particular life histories of individuals. It pays attention not only to material events in the life of a person, but also to his inner characteristics, searching for the motives of someone’s actions, his psychology and mentality. When a biographer takes an explicitly psychoanalytical approach, the term psycho-biography is used. Biographies are written mainly about exceptional or special people and try to achieve a better understanding of their personality. Prosopography is not interested in the unique but in the average, the general and the ‘commonness’ in the life histories of more or less large numbers of individuals. The individual and exceptional is important only insofar as it provides information on the collective and the ‘normal’. For a prosopographer, extraordinary people (such as a Napoleon or a Bismarck) are less appealing and to some extent even disturbing because they are ‘out of the ordinary’.

     Biographies obviously study the entire personality of individuals (external and inner features), whereas prosopography emphasizes the external similarities and differences between individuals within a given population

     Biographical studies are undertaken for many reasons, depending not only on the people being studied, but also on those doing the studying. Let me address the second set of reasons. The sine qua non for me is twofold: there must exist relatively unknown facets of the subject's life, work, or extensions of that work by others, and a wealth of source material must be available for mining, somewhere. The detective work of locating, excavating, and refining the material is rewarding as a kind of problem-solving

     Each biographical study here consists of a brief summary of the person's life and work, including, as may be appropriate and available, a photographic or other image, list of publications, and links. In the case of the university workers, there are quite a number of on-site links to the species named by them or named in their honor. For subjects about whom a book-length biography exists you'll find here only brief summaries with references to the literature. For lesser-known individuals, you'll find more extensive accounts.

Keywords: research and educational staff, vuz (institute of higher education), department, university administration, office, assistant