AUTHOR: Natalia DIANOVA
Danubius, XXXIV-Supliment, Galaţi, 2016, pp. 31-42.
Abstract
The article describes the main directions of scientific and educational activities of members of the clergy in Southern Ukraine, who received education in the Kiev Theological Academy. It was found that among them were prominent scientists, doctors of divinity, philosophy, and Greek literature, honorary members of leading Russian universities and academies. They had diverse research interests, including history. The concept about ponderabilities of a contribution of clergy to the development of historical science and its cooperation with various scientific institutions, first of all – the Odessa society of history and antiquities, is considered.
The place of the studied category of clergy in teaching and in tge educational process of spiritual and secular educational institutions is defined.