Oleksiy Onyschenko

Oleksiy Semenovych Onyschenko
Born (1933-03-17) March 17, 1933
Village of Rudka, near Poltava, Ukraine
Residence Ukraine
Citizenship Ukraine
Fields Culturology
Institutions Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine; Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Alma mater Kiev University

Oleksiy Semenovych Onyschenko (in Ukrainian: Олексій Семенович Онищенко) is a philosopher and culture theorist, Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1997), Recipient of the State Prize in Science and Technology of Ukraine (2008), Professor and Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor Honoris Causa, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.[1] He is the Head of the Division of History, Philosophy and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the General Director of V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.[2][3]

Life

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Oleksiy Semenovych Onyschenko was born on March 17, 1933, in the village of Rudka near Poltava, Ukraine. In 1956 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Kiev State University (now, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), and in 1962 completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (then, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). Having started his academic career as Junior Researcher in 1962, he continued as Research Associate and Senior Research Associate until progressing to the position of the Deputy Director for Academic Work of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1978. He later worked as Director of the Inter-republican Branch of the Academy of Social Sciences in Kiev (until 1991). His research focused on philosophical and sociological problems of development of intellectual and spiritual culture, evolution of mass consciousness and the way of life, scientific and technological revolution, sociology of religion and the history of religion in Ukraine. Since 1992, O.S. Onyschenko has been heading the Vernadsky National Academic Library of Ukraine.[4] In 1997, he was elected Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine under the specialty "Culturology".[5] In 1998, Academician Onyschenko was elected Academic Secretary of the Division of History, Philosophy, and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[6]

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