<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Dobriansky- Demkovych, Mykhailo</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode" /></head> <body text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="7" width="590"> <tr><td valign="top"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><b>Dobriansky- Demkovych, Mykhailo</b></p> <p>Dobriansky- Demkovych, Mykhailo (Dobrjans'kyj Demkovyc, Myxajlo), b. 7 November 1907 in the village of Lahodiv, Peremyshliany county, Galicia. Journalist, civic leader. In 1933-9 Dobriansky-Demkovych served as a co-editor of the monthly Dzvony and the weeklies Meta and Khrystos nasha syla. He was a member of the presidium of the Ukrainian Central Committee in Cracow. In 1945 he emigrated to Germany and than Britain. In Munich he edited the journal Problemy (1947-8) and in London the weekly Ukrains'ka dumka (1949-50). In 1956-72 he served as director of the Ukrainian broadcast of the Radio Liberty in Munich. Since 1972 he has been a regular contributor to Nash holos and Ukrains'ki visti. He has represented the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance in the Ukrainian National Council. Dobriansky-Demkovych is the author of Ukrains'ko-pol's'ki stosunky v XiX storichchi (Ukrainian-Polish Relations in the 19th Century, 1969).</p> </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p align="center"><a href="../index.html">Back to the Dobra Slachecka Society main page</a></p> </td></tr></table> </body> </html>