 Ostroh Academy National UniversityOstroh Academy National University is the successor of Ostroh Slavic, Greek and Latin Academy, the first higher educational establishment of the Eastern Slavic nations. It was founded in 1576 by Prince Vasyl-Kostiantyn of Ostroh. His nice, Princess Halshka of Ostroh, was the beneficiary of the Academy and spent a great deal of money for its development. Basically, Ostroh academy was quite common as for the standards of European education of Middle Ages, but unusual for Ukrainian, as there was practiced teaching of so-called seven free sciences (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), and higher sciences: philosophy, theology and medicine. The students of the Academy learnt five languages: Slavic, Polish, Hebrew, Latin and Greek. The originality of this establishment was also in the fact that it was the first to unite two types of cultures, Byzantine and West European. The Renaissance of the Ukrainian Nation was connected with Ostroh Academy. Ivan Fedorov's printing house with Cyrillic type was the most developed Ukrainian publishing house of those times. It was established in Ostroh cultural center simultaneously with the Academy. Greek and Slavic ABC-Book, the first Ukrainian school-book (1578); New Testament (1580); Tymofii Mykhailovych’s Sobranie Veschey Nuzhneyshykh (Collection of Essential Things), the first directory of old printed texts in the history of Cyrillic polygraphy; Andriy Rymsha’s Chronology (1581), the first printed poetic masterpiece in Ukraine; first complete Slavic Ostroh Bible (1581), a masterpiece of old-Ukrainian polygraphy; outstanding polemic works – A Key to Heavenly Kingdom, New Roman Calendar (1587) by Herasym Smotrytsky, Apokrisis by Christopher Filaret, etc. The student of Ostroh Academy, Meletius Smotrytsky, wrote the first fundamental Slavic Grammar (1619), which M.Lomonosov called ‘the gates to learning’ were published here. The chronicles of the revived Ostroh Academy in Independent Ukraine started in 1994 with the Decree of the President of Ukraine. By virtue of succeeding decrees of the President of Ukraine, development of Ostroh Academy received a new impact for further growth. In October 2000, Ostroh Academy officially became the National University. Phone: +380 365 422 949 2nd Seminarska Steet, City Ostroh,, Rivnenska oblast Other Categories: Education available in Ukraine |
