LVIV UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IN 1661
Lviv University history dates back to the late sixteenth century. It was in 1586 that a brotherhood school, turned into a collegium in 1608, was opened in the capital of Halychyna. This educational institution was famous, inter alia, for the fact that the future hetman B. Khmelnytskyi studied there.
Emblemof Lviv University
It is to be said that Polish authorities of the time were reluctant to open a higher school in Lviv that could become a Ukrainian political and cultural centre. So Ukrainian youth had to get study at Krakow University or other European universities. However, the times were changing and in 1658, according to the Treaty of Hadiach, the government promised to establish two universities in Ukraine — in Kyiv and Lviv. The academies were
