Volodymyr Temnytsky

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Volodymyr Temnytsky (July 24, 1879 – January 26, 1938) was a Ukrainian lawyer, journalist, and diplomat. He served as the Ukrainian People's Republic’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1919 under Prime Minister Borys Martos. Born to a Greek Catholic priest in Khlopivka, he studied law in Lviv but was expelled in 1901 after helping organize a student protest for a Ukrainian university. He continued his studies at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Vienna, earning a Doctor of Laws. He helped found Young Ukraine in 1899 and supported peasant strikes in 1902. He led the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party’s Central Committee (1914–1921). During World War I he joined the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and worked with Ukrainian political groups in Vienna. In 1918 he was elected to the West Ukrainian People’s Republic’s National Council; after its union with the Ukrainian People’s Republic, he served in the government and took part in the Paris Peace Conference delegation. He lived in Galicia in the 1920s, practiced law, wrote for Ukrainian press, and supported cooperatives. In 1928 he became Vice-President of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party, and from 1930 to 1934 he served on Lviv’s Provisional City Council, promoting Ukrainian language. He died in Lviv in 1938.