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THE UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY IN GALICIA 513Łoś was sympathie to the idea, and after polling his faculty obtainedsome active support, particularly from Fryderyk Zoll. 33In mid-July1924, representatives of the ministry met with Ignacy Lyskowski, therector of Warsaw University, and Jan Łoś and Fryderyk Zoll, andagreement was reached on the main points of the Jagellonian's role inthe planning of a Ukrainian university. 34On the Ukrainian side, the major actors were Roman Smal-Stocki(Smal-Stots'kyi) and Kyrylo Studyns'kyi. Dr. Smal-Stocki, born in1893, had studied in Vienna, Leipzig, and Munich, and at this time wasconnected with the Ukrainian university in Prague. During WorldWar I he had served in diplomatic and secretarial capacities, withoutseeing action in the field. His political views were moderate, andeducation abroad set him apart from the average Ukrainian intellectualof the time. A dapper young man of the world, Smal-Stocki was attimes exasperated by Galician provincialism. As he shuttled betweenWarsaw, Berlin, Cracow, Prague, and Lviv, he occasionally acted as aspokesman for Ukrainians, although he did not have organized communitysupport. Kyrylo Studyns'kyi, born in 1868, was a literaryscholar and president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He hadtaught at the Jagellonian before the World War and had been internedby the Poles afterwards. Strengthening intellectual life in Galicia washis abiding interest.Studyns'kyi and Smal-Stocki became intermediaries in the plan tofound a Ukrainian university in Cracow. Ukrainians who had heldprofessorial rank under the Austrians met in Prague at the end ofAugust 1924; on the whole, they supported the establishment of thecommission. They urged Studyns'kyi to continue working on the planwith the government, and Smal-Stocki to serve as an intermediary.Although maintaining that the permanent location of the Ukrainianuniversity must be Lviv, they agreed to accept another site as atemporary measure. They insisted on the immediate creation of facul-Poles. In 1922 one of its rectors, Julian Nowak, headed a cabinet under Piłsudski,in which Gabriel Narutowicz served as foreign minister.33Fryderyk Zoll, formerly vice-president of the Galician School Board and thena vice-rector of the Jagellonian, was a moderate interested in the minorities andready to cooperate with them. He had been an early proponent of education inthe native language, as well as of education for women. Before the World War,Zoll had helped introduce more Ukrainian language schools in Eastern Galicia:see Słowo Polskie, 9 November 1924, and Czajecka, "Przygotowanie kobiet,"passim. See also the interview with Zoll in the Cracow newspaper Czas, 12 September1924, and the appended document 4, pp. 527-530.34See document 3, pp. 524-527.