Gregory Zatkovich

Gregory Zatkovich
Born	December 2, 1886 Holuybne, Bereg County, Austria-Hungary
Died	March 26, 1967 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Burial place	Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Education	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	lawyer
Known for	Rusyn political activist
Parents	Paul Zatkovich

Gregory Zatkovich (Rusyn: Ґріґорій Жатковіч) (December 2, 1886—March 26, 1967) was an American lawyer and political activist for Rusyns in the United States and Europe. He was the first governor of Carpathian Ruthenia, the Rusyn autonomous province of Czechoslovakia.

He was born in the village of Holuybne, Bereg County, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) and emigrated to Pennsylvania with his parents at age five. He graduated from high school in Pittsburgh, earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907, and his LL.D. from the law school at Penn in 1910.

His father, Paul Zatkovich, was the founding editor of the leading Rusyn-American newspaper, Amerikansky Russky Viestnik. This influence drew him into a spokesman role in 1918 for the American National Council of Uhro-Rusyns, and he worked with Woodrow Wilson and Tomas Masaryk in creating a place for Rusyns in the new state of Czechoslovakia.

He died in Pittsburgh in 1967; he is interred in Calvary Cemetery in the city's Greenfield and Hazelwood neighborhoods.

[edit] References

Magocsi, Paul Robert and Ivan Pop (2005). Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-3566-3.

Persondata
NAME	Zatkovich, Gregory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zhatkovich, Gregory
SHORT DESCRIPTION	lawyer and political activist for Rusyns
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holuybne, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 1967
PLACE OF DEATH	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ukraine