Lviv University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), philosopher, mathematician and logician, a pioneer of categorial grammar
  • Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865–1925), classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of the Jagiellonian University
  • Józef Białynia Chołodecki (1852–1934), historian of Lviv.
  • Ivan Franko (1856–1916), poet and linguist, reformer of the Ukrainian language
  • Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), medical doctor and biologist who developed in the 1930s the concept of thought collectives
  • Stanisław Głąbiński (1862–1941) politician, professor and rector (1908–1909) of the university, lawyer and writer
  • Georgiy R. Gongadze (1969–2000), Georgian and Ukrainian journalist
  • Mark Kac, mathematician, pioneer of modern probability theory
  • Yevhen Konovalets (1891–1938) leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists between 1929 and 1938.
  • Emil Korytko (1813–1839), Polish philologist and ethnologist who worked in the Slovene Lands
  • Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), scientist and politician, member of the Polish Government in Exile
  • Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1881–1981), philosopher, mathematician, logician
  • Pinhas Lavon (1904–1976), Israeli politician
  • Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), lawyer who introduced the term "genocide", an author of the United Nations' Convention on Genocide
  • Antoni Łomnicki (1881–1941), mathematician
  • Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), mathematician
  • Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), commander of the First Polish Armoured Division, the last Commander of the First Polish Army Corps under Allied Command
  • Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archeologist and Egyptologist
  • Semyon Mogilevich economist and mafia boss
  • Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-1937), prominent Ukrainian writer
  • Jan Parandowski (1895–1978), writer, essayist, and translator, expert on classical antiquity
  • Maciej Rataj (1884–1940), Polish politician, president
  • Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910–1995), Ukrainian Canadian linguist, lexicographer, folklorist
  • Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), novelist and painter
  • Markiyan Shashkevych (1811–1843), poet
  • Josyf Slipyj (1892–1984), head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  • Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1982), mathematician, educator, and humanist
  • Aizik Isaakovich Vol'pert (1923–2006), mathematician and chemical engineer
  • Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus

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