Дмитро Чижевски

Dmytro Ivanovych Chyzhevsky (1894–1977) was a Ukrainian-born scholar of Slavic literature, history, philosophy, and culture. Of Russian-Polish-Ukrainian ancestry, he studied in St. Petersburg, Kyiv, and later in Germany under Edmund Husserl.

After leaving Soviet Russia in 1921, he taught in Prague and joined the Prague Linguistic Circle before moving to the University of Halle. During WWII he worked at Marburg, then became professor of Slavic studies at Harvard (1949–56). He later returned to Heidelberg, where he remained until his death.

Chyzhevsky’s works ranged from philosophy and folklore to Slavic and comparative literature. He produced major studies on Hryhorii Skovoroda, G.W.F. Hegel, and Nikolai Gogol, and became a leading authority on baroque literature.