Історія українського мовознавства в перспективі особистості: до 100-річчя від дня народження Уляни Єдлінської

The main fragments of the intellectual biography of Ulyana Yedlins’ka – a famous Ukrainian linguist, an authoritative researcher in the field of archaeography, source studies, and biographical studies – are highlighted in the context of the history of Ukrainian linguistics, and in particular, the period of the formation of Ukrainian academic historical lexicography and its intensive development from the middle of the 20th century. The figure of the scientist, her extraordinary scientific achievements are updated with a view to the celebration by the Ukrainian community of the 100th anniversary of her birth in June 2024. The topics and key ideas of scientific reports and memorial speeches delivered at the Round Table, which took place with the participation of the academic community of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the NAS of Ukraine and the community of Khyriv, in the Lviv region, – Ulyana Yedlins`ka’s hometown, where she is buried. The focus is on a number of scientific achievements of the scientist, which not only fill the gaps in understanding the role of the individual in the history of science, but also vividly represent to the contemporary the figure of Ulyana Yedlins`ka, the spectrum of her research interests, the depth of Ukrainian-centricity, devotion to the ideals of the Ukrainian academy, her humanity and internal impulse to act, to work for science despite the not always favorable conditions for the development of unbiased Ukrainian studies in the post-war and Soviet times and despite the complexity of research tasks, including the selection of sources, work on their labeling for card files, and then the compilation of historical dictionaries of the Ukrainian language – XIV–XV and XVI – the first half of the XVII centuries. It is emphasized that an important achievement for science by Ulyana Yedlins`ka is the reconstruction, based on archival data, of unknown pages of biographies of a number of Ukrainian scientists, such as Kyrylo Studins’kyi, Yevhen Tymchenko, Ilarion Svientsits’kyi, and others, whose memoirs are panoramic in nature and allow for a deep understanding of the history of linguistics.