International recognition in the european scientific circles as the main task for Ivan Mirchuk

The scientific heritage of Ukrainian philosopher Ivan Mirchuk has not yet been sufficiently studied in Ukrainian science. The philosopher left enough academic heritage out of Ukraine: in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Munich. However all scientific work of I. Mirchuk was concentrated in Ukrainian institutions. Mirchuk is a representative of the Ukrainian “Sich” in Vienna, a teacher at the Ukrainian Scientific Institute and the Higher Trade School in Berlin, a professor and rector of the Ukrainian Free University. He has a number of scientific works on philosophy, he is also the translator of classics of science. A famous Ukrainian scientist, an authoritative philosopher in Czechoslovak and German scientific circles deserved to be studied and it seems that there should be enough written about such a person. However, I. Mirchuk did not become the object of thorough studies in Ukrainian science, his life, especially the early Ukrainian period, and his work in emigration are still not well studied. In this paper the main attention is paid to the heritage of Mirchuk. The novelty of the paper lies in studying the role of Mirchuk in formatting Ukrainian science in exile and the attempts of the contemporaries to describe his heritage. Based on historical and objective principles the paper shows the main aspects in scientific career of Mirchuk as well as the work at the Ukrainian Free University. The main methods of the paper were comparative and the method of historic analysis that could highlight the academic work of Mirchuk and their main evaluation in works of contemporaries. As a result there is the first analysis of émigré historiography of Mirchuk in Ukrainian science. Conclusion proves that Mirchuk was one of the central persons of Ukrainian scientific life in exile