Mykhaylo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych 3 (15) September 1804 – 10 November 1873

Learned Encyclopaedist, Natural Scientist, Folklorist, Ethnographer, Historian, Writer, Poet, Master of Physics and Mathematics (1827), Doctor of Slavic and Russian Philology (1871), Professor of the Department of Botany (1833) and of the Department of Russian Literature (1834), Dean of the First Section of the Faculty of Philosophy (1834, 1837), the first Rector of the University of St. Volodymyr (1834-1835), Corresponding Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science (from 1871).