Gula Fedir (Teodor) Ivanovich General data:
07.03.1890 - 29.07.1953
Place of birth: Nosiv village, Podgaetskiy region, Galicia Province, Austrian Empire
Studied in: Charles University, Prague City, Austro-Hungarian Empire (1909-1913); Lviv Jan Kazimierz University (since 1999 Ivan Franko Lviv National University) (1913);
Key interests: mathematisc, astronomy. ScD Thesis: On the boundary curve of celestial mechanics (1920 Vienna or Prague);
Biography:
He was born March 7, 1890 in Nosiv village Podgaetskiy district in the Galicia Province of the Austrian Empire (now Ternopil region of Ukraine) in a large peasant family of average means. Only three of the nine children survived to adulthood.
After the "people" (elementary) schools passed the appropriate exam and was admitted to the con tacts school (Polish, Ukrainian but parallel classes).
After graduating from high school Theodore continued his studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Lviv Jan Kazimierz University which he graduated in 1913, according to other data during 1909-1913 he studied at the University of Prague.
During 1913-1914 he work as "Professor" (teacher) school in the town of Belz of Lviv region.
In July 1914, when the First World War, it was mobilized officer of the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1915 the Italian front, he was captured and then held in a POW camp in the city. Melfi in the south of the peninsula.
In 1920 in Vienna or Prague protects German doctorate in astronomy entitled "On the limit curve celestial mechanics" for the title of Doctor of Philosophy, which amended the laws of Kepler, which allowed him to open a small planet in the solar system, called then in his honor asteroid Gula. But with getting scientific rank having difficulties and he had "rewritten" in Polish to get in Galicia least some public office. Therefore, it is the beginning of the 20th biennium. Was in exile in Czechoslovakia in the Slovak Republic in Josefov City.
Here he is involved, "Ukrainian State Immigration Seminar I. Franko," as a teacher in the 1923-1924. During the 1920's - early 1930's he taught at Ukrainian Gymnasium in Rzhevytsi town near Prague. During the 1923-1933 he teaches Ukrainian High Pedagogical Institute (UVPI) in Prague, working as an assistant professor of astronomy and was a member of the Senate as dean of the Institute of Natural department (faculty) and engaged in scientific activities. He also served on the editorial board of Ukrainian general encyclopedias (Uzes or "Book of Knowledge"), three volumes of which were published in the 1930-1934.
He is a co-organizer and participant in the International Convention of the Beekeepers and Book Supporters in Prague, held since June 28 to July 3, 1926.
He is the author of textbooks on astronomy for Higher Education, Labour has Ukrainian and German on the eclipse of the sun, in particular, "the theory zatmy Sun" and others.
In 1933 UVPI was closed and the professor to 1936 he worked at the universities of Vienna and Prague.
In 1937 he returned to Galicia and occupies a modest position of "Professor" (Teacher)of mathematics in T.G. Shevchenko Ukrainian private school in the city Gorodenka on Stanislav (in 1962 the regional center. Stanislav city was renamed in Ivano-Frankivsk city).
In 1940 he was an associate professor at the invitation of the Lviv Pedagogical Institute, Romance Tsehelskyi since 01.08.1940 he went to the city to take the post of assistant eventy. Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics on mat.-phis. faculty, but work is in Lviv University, where in 1940 based astronomical observatory, and in the spring of 1941 Dr. F. Gula is headed.
When the Great Patriotic War in June 1941 he had went bach to his old apartment in Horodenka city. Autumn thesame year at meetings of citizens elected chairman of the county branch "Ukrainian Aid Committee," but after a short time he abandoned the presidency and goes to work in a "county union cooperative", which formally held the position of secretary, and actually was deputy chairman and translator in relations of the German occupation authorities.
And from 1943 and until the spring of 1944 worked as a teacher of German in trade school, organized instead of the old school. With the retreat of the Germans from Horodenka in March 1944 he emigrated to Vienna. According to other sources, he was in a German concentration camp almost the entire period of World War II, perhaps because even though he was listed among the prisoners, the doctor actually was not in the German camp on was the use of the Germans, in particular as a translator, knowledge of which were appreciated by even the German occupation -fashyskoyu power, although his health suffered greatly.
But soon returned to his native village in Ternopil noses. Osivshy a sister again went to work for the middle (now Soviet) school and even became deputy director of studies (now general education of I-III) school in a nearby village Zavala that 4 km from Nasal and later director Podgaetskiy night school. He teaches physics, astronomy, logic and mathematics in grades 8-10.
In the postwar years professor Gulu repeatedly invited to prestigious positions in academic institutions in Lviv and Kyiv. But he refused, wanting to live in his village.
It should be noted that Dr. Gula knew a dozen languages besides their native Ukrainian, Polish, German, Greek, Latin, Czech, Slovak, Russian.
He died July 29, 1953 in his native village.
He is known as an astronomer and teacher, translator, and poet. He is the author of textbooks for high school on astronomy; works on the eclipse of the Sun.
Main publications:
1. Ãóëà Ô.(Ò.)². «Òåîð³ÿ âåêòîð³â».-Ïðàãà
2. Ãóëà Ô.(Ò.)². «Ñôåðè÷íà àñòðîíîì³ÿ».-Ïðàãà
3. Ãóëà Ô.(Ò.)². Äî òåî𳿠çàòüì ñîíöÿ. -Ïðàãà:âèäàâ.Ïåäàãîã³÷íîãî ³íñòèòóòó Ìèõàéëà Äðàãîìàíîâà.- 1929
4. Ãóëà Ô.(Ò.)². гâí³ ôîðìè ñõ³äíüî¿ êðèâî¿ ãðàíè÷íî¿ â òåî𳿠çàòüì ñîíöÿ.- Ïðàãà:âèäàâ.Ïåäàãîã³÷íîãî ³íñòèòóòó Ìèõàéëà Äðàãîìàíîâà. -1933
Sources:
1 Ïðåäâàðèòåëüíûé ïîèñêîâûé ñïèñîê àñòðîíîìîâ, ïîêèíóâøèõ Ðîññèþ â êîíöå XIX - ïåðâîé ïîëîâèíå ÕÕ ââ./Ì. Þ. Ñîðîêèíà, Ã. À. Ñàâèíà, Þ.Â.Ùåïàíñêàÿ.-2009.-Ñ. 3
2 Ñòåïàí ÏÀÂ×ÀÊ ÀÑÒÐÎÍÎÌ ² ÏÅÄÀÃÎà ÔÅIJРÃÓËÀ// "ßìãîð³â"- ì. Ãîðîäåíêà
3 ÑÖÅÍÀÐIÉ ÌÀÒÅÌÀÒÈ×ÍÎÃÎ ÐÀÍÊÓ ÄÎ 120-ÐI××ß ÂIÄ ÄÍß ÍÀÐÎÄÆÅÍÍß ÔÅIJРÃÓËÀ - ÌÀÒÅÌÀÒÈÊ, ÀÑÒÐÎÍÎÌ, Ó×ÅÍÈÉ, ÏÅÄÀÃÎÃ, ÃÐÎÌÀÄßÍÈÍ
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