The article is devoted to the activity of Ivan Theodor Rudnytzky, a military, social and political figure and a lawyer. His life is a vivid example of the fate of many Ukrainians from Galicia, who dedicated their lives to the struggle for Ukraine’s freedom and independence. Archival records, other documents and his memoirs were used to reclaim his name from oblivion.This article is the biography of one of the unsung heroes of Western Ukraine’s struggle for independence. In offers a brief genealogy of the Rudnytzky family and dwells on the formation of his character- beginning with Ivanʹs birth in Galicia (village Bedrykivci), on February 20, 1886 to 1920.Based on Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Austrian archival materials and on secondary literature and memoirs, author traces the eventful life of an Austrian and, later, Ukrainian military officer, lawyer and freedom fighter who, although little known today, was one of the chief architects of the historic 1918 November Uprising in Lviv.While crystallizing the personality of her subject and describing his activities in military and civil life, both in Ukraine and in emigration, the author offers glimpses of new and heretofore unknown historical facts as well as insights into Zeitgeist of the inter and post bellum periods in Ukraine.Juli 1910 he is member a student demonstration at the University of Lviv. Beginning with the 1914, it describes Rudnytzkys career in the Austrian army, where he served as a commander of a machine-gun regiment and was wounded on the Italian front.It discusses as a key member of the Ukrainian Military Committee, which prepared the November Uprising of 1918, his work in the Ukrainian Galician Army. In Massаrykʹs Czechia (1920-1927), I. Rudnytzky served as a representative of the Ukrainian Galician Army in Vienna as well as a military attache in Prage until 1927.