Sas-Zaloziecky, Wladimir

Full Name: Sas-Zaloziecky, Wladimir

Other Names:

Vladimir Sas-Zaloziecky
Wladimir Sas-Zaloziecki
Volodymyr R. Zalozetsky-Sas
Володимир Залозецький-Сас
Wladimir Zalozec'kyj-Sas

Gender: male

Date Born: 10 July 1896

Date Died: 12 October 1959

Place Born: Lviv, L'vivs'ka Oblast', Urkraine (Lwów Poland)

Home Country/ies: Austria

Overview

Vladimir Sas-Zaloziecky was the son of Roman Zalozetsky-Sas (1861-1918), an engineer. He entered the Vienna University, receiving his Ph.D., in 1918. He lectured there and represented the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian National Republic in Vienna. From 1922 (to 1924) he worked to preserve the Czech cultural heritage by serving on Czechoslovak government board for the preservation of cultural monuments in Uzhhorod, then still part of the Austrian Empire (today Ukraine). Sas-Zaloziecky lectured at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague between 1924 and 1926). He published his Gotische und barocke Holzkirchen in den Karpathenländern in 1926. He was the chair of art history at the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin, 1926–1939 and the Greek Catholic Theological Academy in Lviv, 1930–1939. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a scholarly society from 1932. In 1939 he began lecturing at his alma mater (Vienna University). Nearing the end of World War II he founded the Österreichisch-Byzantinische Gesellschaft (Austrian Byzantine Society) in Vienna (1945). He was also briefly the head of the Wiener Institut immediately after World War II (1945).

After the War he moved to Graz, appointed to the university there.

Sas-Zaloziecky was assistant professor at Lemberg between 1935-39 and from 1940 Professor in Vienna. He was a specialist for Eastern European and Byzantine history of art. In 1949 he became professor in Graz.

Selected Bibliography

Oleksa Novakivs’kyi, 1934
Die Sophienkirche in Konstantinopel und ihre Stellung in der Geschichte der abendländischen Architektur (1936),
Geschichte der altchristlichen Kunst (1936),
Byzanz und Abendland im Spiegel ihrer Kunsterscheinungen (1936),
Geschichte der altchristlichen Kunst (1936),
Die byzantinische Baukunst in den Balkanländern und ihre Differenzierung unter abendländischen und islamischen Einwirkungen; Studien zur Kunstgeschichte der Balkanländer. Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1955.