ДІМ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ НАУКИ В МЮНХЕНІ: СТОРІНКИ ІНТЕЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЇ ІСТОРІЇ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ПОВОЄННОЇ ЕМІГРАЦІЇ

Abstract

The article investigates the history of creation of the House of Ukrainian Sciences as an umbrella association of three Ukrainian scientific institutions: Ukrainian Free University (UFU), Ukrainian technical-husbandry Institute (UTHI) and European section of the Shevchenko Scientific society (NTSh) beginning from the idea of its creation in the early 1960es till 1991 and including short overview of its activity. This structure had an executive body – Working and Promoting Association of Ukrainian Sciences as a form of Ukrainian-German collaboration in organization of three over mentioned Ukrainian research institutions‘ activity. Thanks to it the Ukrainian Institutions could proceed their work: in the case of the Ukrainian Free University in both teaching and research aspects and by UTHI and NTSh in their scientific work. Such formal association allowed to provide organizational support and research planning of the Ukrainian scientific institutions, assure their financial assignment, which to the big part was given by German authorities, and organize controlling of the use of money. From the other side, the House of the Ukrainian Sciences founded 1963 allowed more affective internal and external cooperation of the Ukrainian scientific institutions by prevention of the autonomy status of each them. That in its turn allowed proceeding of activity of these Ukrainian scientific institutions in Germany as well as the further development of the of Ukrainian emigration‘s intellectual tradition in the whole. House of Ukrainian sciences became an important cultural and intellectual center of Ukrainians abroad and a mediator between them and German, further – European culture.