MARKО ANTONOVYCH’S WAY TO BECOMING A SCIENTIST, A PUBLIC AND POLITICAL FIGURE

Abstract

The article deals with the life path of Marko Antonovych. The author analyzes the main factors, such as his family, social and cultural environment, which influenced the Antonovych’s identity formation and his becoming a scholar, a public and political figure. For the first time, the information about the unknown pages of the historian’s life was discovered using archival sources. The author of the article focuses on school and student years of Marko Antonovych, when a scholar-to-be was studying at the educational institutions of Prague and Munich.