Przyczynek do biografi i Iwana W. Bessaraby, autora monografi i Materiały dla etnografi i guberni siedleckiej

The article addresses the issue of verifying the date and place of birth of Ivan Venedyktovych Bessaraby, an ethnographer from Podlasie. Previous scholarly works (including the Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Language) generally specify the place and date of birth of the ethnographer from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Podlasie. The author of the article, utilizing 19th-century archival materials (from the State Archive in Lublin), narrows down Ivan V. Bessaraby’s date of birth to June 7, 1847 (according to the Gregorian calendar), while the Encyclopedia records his birth as around 1850. The second piece of information being verifi ed is the birthplace previously stated as Łomazy or Koszoły (in the Biała Podlaska district). However, the author of this article concludes from the birth registry that Ivan Bessaraba was born into a Uniate family in the village of Lubenka, which belongs to the Łomazy parish