Ivan Vyshenskyi

Harvey Goldblatt (Yale University); John Mikitish (Yale University)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born c. 1550

Places

Active in Ukraine

Activities

Primary

Polemicist

Resources

Vyshenskyi's Works

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Ivan Vyshens′kyi (c. 1550 to sometime after 1620)—or “Ioann [John] of Vyshnia from the Holy Mountain of Athos”, as he referred to himself in some of his writings—was a Ruthenian Orthodox monk who passed most of his life on Mount Athos and is noted primarily for his writings against the Union of Brest (1595–1596). All of them appear to have been sent in the form of epistles from Mount Athos to the Ruthenian lands; and they were variously addressed not only to the Ruthenian bishops who secured the union, as well as to certain significant religious figures and cultural centers, but also to “all pious people living in Little Rus´ in the Polish Kingdom” (Eremin 1955, 7).

Despite attempts on the part of succeeding generations of scholars—including Panteleimon Kulish (1874),

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Citation: Goldblatt, Harvey, John Mikitish. "Ivan Vyshenskyi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 August 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13648, accessed 16 October 2024.]