ЄВГЕН НАХЛІК – ПОЛОНІСТ-ГУМАНІТАРІЙ І ОРГАНІЗАТОР АКАДЕМІЧНОЇ НАУКИ(до 65-річчя від дня народженняі 40-річчя праці в Національній академії наук України)

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The article is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of his birth and the 40th anniversary of his work at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine of Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Professor, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Ivan Franko Institute of the NAS of Ukraine (Lviv) Yevhen Nakhlik – an outstanding Ukrainian scholar of a broad humanitarian profile and long-time organizer of academic literary studies. He is an authoritative historian of Ukrainian literature from the 18th century to the present in a broader Slavonic and European literary, cultural and historical context, researcher of life and works of T. Shevchenko, P. Kulish, I. Franko, I. Kotlyarevsky and other writers, Slavist (first of all polonist and russianist), comparatist, literary critic as well as historian of Ukrainian national-cultural and liberation movement of the 17th – first half of the 20th century. He is the author of more than 700 scientific publications of his own, including 15 monographs. In his interpretative studies, he gravitates toward comprehension of theoretical issues in literature (artistic movements and trends, anthropology, mythology, archetypes, psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, historiosophy, poetics of imagery, versification etc.), tracing philosophical, in particular religious-philosophical, and ideological quests of writers. Since 1991 Yevhen Nakhlik is the founder and the head of the Lviv branch of T.G. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, since 2011 he is the founder and the director of the State Institution “Ivan Franko Institute of NAS of Ukraine” on the basis of this branch. Since the beginning of the XXI century Yevhen Nakhlik belongs to the cohort of leading scholars who define the face of modern national literary studies. With his numerous scientific and popular scientific publications he has made a significant contribution to the interpretive, theoretical and methodological, source, factual and textual renewal of Ukrainian literary studies. His pioneering works, especially his fundamental monographs, have become classics of national humanities, raised our literary thought to a qualitatively new level, and have a significant influence on the development of modern literary and cultural studies. An indicator of the high level of literary criticism, public recognition and popularity of Yevhen Nakhlik’s books and articles is the fact that a number of them have received prestigious scientific awards. His outstanding services to the national science are marked by numerous awards at different levels - state, departmental and regional.