German traveler and researcher Johann Georg Kohl and his notes about Ukraine and Lviv
Keywords:
Johann Georg Kohl, travel notes, Ukraine, Lviv, the middle of the 19th centuryAbstract
Western European Ukrainian studies contain valuable, extensive, and significant information about Ukraine in the works of the German traveler and researcher Johann Georg Kohl (1808 – 1878), who was one of the most famous German travelers, a geographer, and founder of anthropogeography, a writer-researcher, historian-cartographer, and librarian-law scholar.
The outstanding German scholar Johann Georg Kohl, who traveled through Ukraine in the middle of the 19th century, left vivid records for posterity about culture and everyday life, customs and rituals, work and leisure, cultural and everyday relationships, the history and traditions of the Ukrainian people, the economy, commodity production, and trade of Ukraine of that period. All this is valuable for historical science and complements our knowledge of the history of Ukraine in the 19th century.
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