List of people from Galicia (Eastern Europe): modern period

The following list includes famous people of various nationalities who were born in or resided for a significant period in Galicia (Eastern Europe), part of Ukraine. (18th–20th centuries).

A–F

 * Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army, born in Lviv
 * Eliezer Adler, founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England, born in Stanislau
 * Shmuel Agnon, Jewish writer, founder of modern Israeli Hebrew literature, born in Buchach
 * Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, philosopher and logician, born in Ternopil
 * Izak Aloni (born Izak Schächter), Polish-Israeli chess master, born in Lviv
 * Antin Angelovych, first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–14), born in Hryniv, near Bibrka
 * Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Count, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38), born in Kraków
 * Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Jewish American writer, raised from the age of five in Buchach
 * Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss), Pakistan's ambassador to UN, born in Lviv
 * Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem, born in Stanislau
 * Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist, born in Zavalov, near Pidhaytsi
 * Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych, born in Tyrawa Wołoska, near Sanok
 * Emanuel Ax, Jewish American pianist, born in Lviv
 * Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer), founder of Hasidism
 * Yosef Babad, rabbi and posek, born in Przeworsk
 * Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, Count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–97)
 * Meir Balaban, historian, born in Lviv
 * Adolph Baller, Austrian-American pianist, born in Brody
 * Oswald Balzer, historian, born in Khodoriv, near Zidichov
 * Stefan Banach, eminent mathematician, born in Kraków
 * Stepan Bandera, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Uhryniv Staryi, near Kalush
 * Iuliu Barasch, physician and writer, born in Brody
 * Kazimierz Bartel, Prime Minister of Poland, born in Lviv
 * Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician, born in Shliakhnyntsi, near Ternopil
 * Eugeniusz Baziak, Archbishop of Lvov and Apostolic Administrator of Kraków, born in Ternopil
 * Józef Bem, Polish general, national hero of Poland and Hungary, born in Tarnów
 * Alexander Beliavsky, Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master, born in Lviv
 * Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-British actress, born in Drohobych
 * St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, born in Wilamowice near Kęty
 * Josef Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy, born in Dukla
 * Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia (1908–13), born in Kraków
 * Naftali Botwin, revolutionary terrorist, born in Kamianka-Buzka
 * Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, Polish general, born in Rzeszów
 * Naftule Brandwein, klezmer clarinetist, born in Przemyslany
 * Berl Broder (born Berl Margulis), Jewish singer, born in Brody
 * Aleksander Brückner, distinguished Polish slavist and historian of literature, born in Berezhany
 * Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher, lived in Lviv
 * Solomon Buber, Jewish scholar, born in Lviv
 * Nykyta Budka, the first Ukrainian Canadian Greek Catholic bishop, born in Dobromirka
 * Arthur Frank Burns, American economist, born in Stanislau
 * Zvi Hirsch Chajes, Talmudic scholar, born in Brody
 * Oscar Chajes, Austrian-American chess master, born in Brody
 * Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1992), born in Dubrovytsia
 * Leon Chwistek, painter, logician, philosopher, born in Kraków
 * Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor, born in Kniaże, near Stanislau
 * Ignacy Daszyński, Polish politician, born in Zbarazh
 * Isaac Deutscher, Polish-British political activist and historian, born in Chrzanów
 * Józef Dominik, Polish chess master, born in Dobczyce
 * Michael Dorfman, Yiddish and Hebrew writer, born in Lviv
 * Albin Dunajewski, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kraków and Cardinal, born in Stanislau
 * Arthur Dunkelblum, Belgian chess master, born in Kraków
 * Karol Durski-Trzaska, general, born in Spas, near Staryi Sambir
 * Elimelech of Lizhensk, great Hasidic rebbe and tzadik
 * Isaac Erter, Hebrew language writer, born in Janischok
 * Józef Feldman, historian, born in Przemyśl
 * Ida Fink, Israeli writer, born in Zbarazh
 * Salo Flohr, Czech-Ukrainian chess master, born in Horodenka
 * Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
 * Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer, born in Nahuevychi near Drohobych
 * Petro Franko, Ukrainian educator, born in Nahuevychi near Drohobych
 * Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian writer, born in Chortkiv
 * Aleksander Fredro, Polish writer, born in Surochów, near Jaroslav
 * Amalia Freud (born Amalia Nathansohn), mother of Sigmund Freud, born in Brody
 * Mikhail Fridman, Russian banker of Jewish descent from Lviv
 * Filip Friedman, historian, born in Lviv
 * Henryk Friedman, chess master from Lviv
 * Yisroel Friedman, Hasidic Rebbe of Ruzhin

G–K

 * Mordechai Gebirtig, Yiddish poet and songwriter, born in Kraków
 * Abraham Gershon of Kitov, Hasidic rabbi of Kitov and Brody, born in Kuty
 * Agenor Goluchowski, Count, interior minister of Austria (1859–60)
 * Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Count, foreign affairs minister of Austria-Hungary (1895–1906)
 * Maurycy Gottlieb, Jewish painter from Drohobych
 * Leopold Gottlieb, painter from Drohobych
 * Chaim Gross, Austrian-American sculptor, born in Kolomyia
 * Feliks Gross, Polish-American sociologist, born in Kraków
 * Henryk Grossman, Polish-German economist of Jewish descent, born in Kraków
 * Artur Grottger, painter, born in Ottyniowice, near Zhydachiv
 * Kazimierz Górski, coach of Polish national football (soccer) team, born in Lviv
 * Andrzej Kusionowicz Grodyński, Appeal Court Judge born in Gdów
 * Ludwig Gumplowicz, sociologist and lawyer, born in Kraków
 * Wilhelm Habsburg, Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
 * Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist from, born in Dynów.
 * Ben Zion Halberstam, second Bobover Rebbe
 * Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, Hasidic rabbi
 * Naftali Halberstam, fourth Bobover Rebbe
 * Shlomo Halberstam, first Bobover Rebbe
 * Marian Hemar, poet, born in Lviv
 * Zbigniew Herbert, poet, born in Lviv
 * Maxim Hermaniuk, the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg, born in Nove Selo, near Horodok
 * Arthur Hertzberg, Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist, born in Lubaczów
 * Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov, the founder of Zidichov (Hasidic dynasty)
 * Jerzy Hoffman, film director, born in Kraków
 * Roald Hoffmann, American chemist (Nobel Prize in 1981), born in Zolochiv
 * Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, born in Chepeli
 * Sydir Holubovych, Ukrainian politician, born in Towsteńskie near Husiatyn
 * Krystyna Holuj-Radzikowska, chess woman grandmaster, born in Lviv
 * Shimshon Holzman, Israeli painter, born in Sambir
 * Bl. Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian nun, beatified by John Paul II in 2001, born in Lviv
 * Moses Horowitz, playwright and actor of Yiddish theatre, born in Stanislau
 * Schmelke Horowitz, rabbi of Nikolsburg in Moravia, born in Chortkiv
 * Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist, born in Lviv
 * Dmytro Hrytsai, Ukrainian politician and general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Dorozhin, near Sambir
 * Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Cardinal, born in Lviv
 * Abba Hushi, Israeli politician, born in Turka
 * Naftali Herz Imber, Jewish poet who wrote the lyrics of Hatikvah, the national anthem of Israel, born in Zolochiv
 * Leopold Infeld, physicist, born in Kraków
 * Karol Irzykowski, writer, literary critic, theorist of film and chess player, born in Błaszkowa near Pilzno
 * Vasyl Ivanchuk Ukrainian world class chess player, born in Berezhany
 * Alfred Jansa, Austrian Major-General, born in Stanislau
 * Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv and Cardinal, born in Lviv
 * Max Judd, American chess master, born in Kraków
 * Stepan Kachala, politician and writer, born near Berezhany
 * Jaroslav Kacmarcyk, a head of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic (1918–20), born in Binczarowa
 * Stefan Kaczmarz, mathematician, born in Lviv
 * Tadeusz Kantor, painter, theatre director, born in Wielopole
 * Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general of the Polish Army, born in Lviv
 * Wojciech Kilar, classical and film music composer, born in Lviv
 * Moise Kisling, painter, born in Kraków
 * Julian Klaczko, Polish-Austrian diplomat
 * Franciszek Kleeberg, general of the Polish Army, born in Ternopil
 * Józef Klotz, Polish footballer, born in Kraków
 * Dmytro Klyachkivsky, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Zbarazh
 * Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army, born in Lviv
 * Yevhen Konovalets, Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Zashkiv, near Lviv
 * Zenon Kossak, Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Drohobych
 * Bl. Omelyan Kovch, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, born in Tlumach, near Kosiv
 * Ignacy Krasicki, Prince-Bishop of Ermland and Archbishop of Gniezno, born in Dubiecko, near Przemyśl
 * František Kriegel, Czechoslovak politician, born in Stanislau
 * Walter Krivitsky, Soviet spy, born in Pidvolochysk, near Ternopil
 * Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher, born in Brody
 * Solomiya Krushelnytska, Ukrainian opera singer
 * Ivan Krypiakevych, Ukrainian historian, born in Lviv
 * Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer, encyclopedist, politician (Ukrainian Central Committee), born in Neu Sandez
 * Vasyl Kuk, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Krasne near Zolochiv
 * Viktor Kurmanovych, general, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Galician Army, born in Vilshanitsa near Zolochiv
 * Jacek Kuroń, leader of the Solidarity movement, born in Lviv

L–O

 * Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat and jurist, born in Stanislau
 * Salo Landau, Dutch chess master, born in Bochnia
 * Hersch Lauterpacht, British judge, born in Zhovkva
 * Pinhas Lavon, Israeli politician, born in Kopychyntsi
 * Stanisław Jerzy Lec (de Tusch-Letz), writer, born in Lviv
 * Stanisław Lem, writer, born in Lviv
 * Juliusz Leo, politician and academic, Mayor of Kraków (1904–1918), born in Stebnik
 * Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and writer, born in Krehulets, Husiatyn district
 * Hirschel Levin, Chief Rabbi at London and Berlin, born in Rzeszów
 * Kost Levitsky, Ukrainian politician, born in Tysmenytsya
 * Herman Lieberman, politician, born in Drohobych
 * Ephraim Moses Lilien, Jewish photographer, born in Drohobych
 * Marta Litinskaya-Shul, chess woman grandmaster, born in Lviv
 * Roman Longchamps de Bérier, lawyer, the last rector of the Jan Kazimierz University, born in Lviv
 * George Stephen Nestor Luckyj, scholar of Ukrainian literature, born in Yanchyn near Lviv
 * Ignacy Łukasiewicz, inventor (petroleum industry)
 * Jan Łukasiewicz, logician, born in Lviv
 * Oleh Luzhnyi, football (soccer) player and coach, born in Lviv
 * Vyacheslav Lypynsky, politician and historian, born in Volodymyr-Volynskyi
 * Bl. Roman Lysko, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, born in Horodok, near Lviv
 * Stanisław Maczek, general of the Polish Army, born in Szczerzec, near Lviv
 * Ephraim Zalman Margolis, Talmudic scholar, born in Brody
 * Max Margules, meteorologist, born in Brody
 * Samuel Hirsch Margulies, Chief Rabbi of Florence, born in Berezhany
 * Jan Matejko, painter, born in Kraków
 * Stanislaw Mazur, mathematician, born in Lviv
 * Józef Mehoffer, painter, born in Ropczyce
 * Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born near Drohobych
 * Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of Economics, born in Neu Sandez
 * Adrian Mikhalchishin, Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master, born in Lviv
 * Ludwig von Mises, foremost representative of the Austrian School of Economics, born in Lviv
 * Richard von Mises, mathematical physicist and statistician, born in Lviv
 * Helena Modjeska, actress, born in Kraków
 * Ralph Modjeski, engineer, born in Bochnia
 * Kalikst Morawski, chess master, born in Boryszkowce, near Borshchiv
 * Janusz Morgenstern, film director and producer, born in Mikulińce, near Ternopil
 * Soma Morgenstern, writer and journalist, born in Budaniv
 * Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lived and worked in Lviv
 * Andrzej Munk, film director, born in Kraków
 * Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian, born in Wola Okrzejska
 * Joseph Saul Nathanson, rabbi and posek, born in Berezhany
 * Hryhoriy Nestor, shepherd, born in Carpathian Mountains
 * Nikifor (Epifaniusz Drowniak), Ruthenian (Lemko) painter, born in Krynica
 * Leopold Okulicki, general, last commander-in-chief of the Home Army, born in Bratucice, near Bochnia
 * Joseph Oleskiw, Ukrainian writer, born in Skvariava Nova, near Zhovkva
 * Menachem Oren (Mieczysław Chwojnik), Polish-Israeli chess master and mathematician
 * Władysław Orlicz, mathematician from Okocim
 * Ostap Ortwin, literary critic, born in Tłumacz, near Stanislau]
 * Bohdan Osadchuk, historian and journalist, born in Kolomyia
 * Stanisław Ostrowski, third President of Poland in exile (1972–79), born in Lviv
 * Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, Count, founder of the Ossolineum, born in Wola Mielecka, near Mielec

P–R

 * Jan Parandowski, writer, essayist, and translator, born in Lviv
 * Jakub Karol Parnas, biochemist, born in Mokriany, near Drohobych
 * Yevhen Petrushevych, President of Western Ukrainian People's Republic, born in Busk
 * Volodymyr Petryshyn, mathematician, born in Liashky Murovani, Lviv
 * Simhah Pinsker, archeologist, born in Ternopil
 * Oskar Piotrowski, chess master, lived in Lviv
 * Mykola Plaviuk, President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–92), born in Russiv, near Stanislav
 * Rudolf Pöch, Austrian anthropologist and ethnologist, born in Ternopil
 * Stepan Popel, chess master, born in Komarniki, near Turka
 * Ignatz von Popiel, chess master, born in Drohobych
 * Alfred Józef Potocki, Count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–71), born in Łańcut
 * Omeljan Pritsak, Ukrainian historian and orientalist, born in Luka near Sambir
 * Włodzimierz Puchalski, photographer and film director, born in Mostki Wielkie, near Lviv
 * Ivan Pulyui, Ukrainian physicist and inventor, born in Hrymailiv
 * Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Prince, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Lvov and Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, born in Gwoździec
 * Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Swiss mathematician, born in Brody
 * Isidor Isaac Rabi, Austrian-American physicist (Nobel Prize in 1944), born in Rymanów
 * Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician, born in Lviv
 * Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport (Shir), born in Lviv
 * Alfred Redl, Austrian counter-intelligence officer, born in Lviv
 * Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychoanalyst, born in Dobrzanica, a village near Peremyshliany
 * Józef Retinger, Polish-Austrian-Mexican-British political adviser, born in Kraków
 * Emanuel Ringelblum, Polish Jewish historian, born in Buchach
 * Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz
 * Yehoshua Rokeach, second Rebbe of Belz
 * Yissachar Dov Rokeach, third Rebbe of Belz
 * Aharon Rokeach, fourth Rebbe of Belz
 * Mordechai Rokeach, Rav of the town of Bilgoray, born in Belz
 * Oleg Romanishin, chess master, born in Lviv
 * Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician, born in Brody
 * Jakob Rosenfeld, Chinese general, born in Lviv
 * Erna Rosenstein, painter and poet, born in Lviv
 * Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, economist, born in Kraków
 * Henry Roth, American writer, born in Tysmenitz near Stanislau
 * Joseph Roth, Austrian writer of Jewish descent, born in Brody
 * Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish minister of foreign affairs, born in Peremyshliany
 * Tadeusz Rozwadowski, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, born in Babin, near Kalush
 * Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist, born in Kraków
 * Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, Ukrainian Canadian linguist, born in Przemyśl
 * Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish marshal and commander-in-chief, born in Berezhany

S–Z

 * Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, born in Lviv
 * Dov Sadan, scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, born in Brody
 * Manfred Sakel, neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, born in Nadvorna
 * Adam Stefan Sapieha, Prince, Archbishop of Kraków and Cardinal, born in Krasiczyn
 * Juliusz Schauder, mathematician, born in Lviv
 * Heinrich Schenker, music theorist, born in Vyshnivchyk
 * Moses Schorr, rabbi, assyriologist and politician, born in Przemyśl
 * Bruno Schulz, poet, novelist and painter, born in Drohobych
 * Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, Jewish gaon of Berezhany, born in Zolochiv
 * Marcella Sembrich, born in 1858 in Wisniewczyk, in Austrian Galicia, now part of Ukraine. A consummate musician, she was a major figure in the operatic world.
 * Meir Shapiro, Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
 * Markiyan Shashkevych, poet and interpreter, born in Pidlissia near Zolochiv
 * Andrey Sheptytsky, Count, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
 * Clement Sheptytsky, Count, Archimandrite of the Studite monks, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
 * Stanisław Sheptytsky, Count, general of the Polish Army, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
 * Roman Shukhevych, the supreme commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Krakovets, near Yavoriv
 * Władysław Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland and commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces (1939–43), born in Tuszów Narodowy
 * Stanisław Skrowaczewski, conductor, born in Lviv
 * Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in of Zazdrist, near Terebovlia
 * Wacław Sobieski, historian, born in Lviv
 * Stanisław Sosabowski, general, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, born in Stanislau
 * Jerzy Sosnowski, major, Polish spy in Germany (1926–34) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz, born in Lviv
 * Manès Sperber, novelist and psychologist, born in Zabolotiv
 * Nissan Spivak, Jewish cantor and composer from Belz
 * Hnat Stefaniv, Ukrainian colonel, born in Toporivtsi, near Horodenka
 * Vasyl Stefanyk, writer, born in Rusiv, near Kuty
 * Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician, born in Jasło
 * Yaroslav Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Ternopil
 * Slava Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Romanivka, near Terebovlia
 * Lee Strasberg, Jewish American director, actor and producer, born in Budaniv
 * Julian Stryjkowski, writer, born in Stryj
 * Kyryl Studynsky, head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939), born in Kamienka near Ternopil
 * Franciszek Sulik, chess master, born in Lviv
 * Karol Szajnocha, historian, born in Komarno
 * Jan Szczepanik, inventor, born in Rudniki, near Mostyska
 * Jan Szembek, Count, deputy secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, born in Poręba
 * Józef Szujski, historian and politician, born in Tarnów
 * Stanisław Tarnowski, historian and politician, born in Dzików
 * Józef Teodorowicz, Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite)
 * Oscar Tenner, chess master, born in Lviv
 * Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy, born in Nowy Targ
 * Metodyj Trochanovskij, Lemko activist, born in Binczarowa
 * Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hebrew scholar, born in Lviv
 * Adam Ulam, historian, born in Lviv
 * Stanisław Ulam, mathematician, co-inventor of the H-bomb, born in Lviv
 * Leopold Unger, journalist, born in Lviv
 * Ivan Vahylevych, Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, born in Yasen near Stanislav
 * Anatole Vakhnianyn, Ukrainian politician and composer, born near Przemyśl
 * Bl. Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop (body found incorrupt), born in Stanislau
 * Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the present National Anthem of Ukraine, born in Jawornik Ruski, near Bircza
 * Dmytro Vitovsky, Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Medukha
 * Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–65), born near Stanislav
 * Alexander Wagner, chess theoretician, lived in Stanislau
 * Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Tchebin (Trzebinia)
 * Rudolf Weigl, biologist, lived in Lviv
 * Friedrich Weinreb, Jewish philosopher, born in Lviv
 * Shevah Weiss, Israeli politician, born in Boryslav
 * Kazimierz Wierzyński, Polish poet, born in Drohobych
 * Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis, born in Buchach
 * Billy Wilder, Austrian-American film director, born in Suchá Beskidzka
 * Karol Wojtyła, John Paul II, Archbishop of Kraków, and Pope (1978–2005), born in Wadowice
 * Zev Wolf of Zbaraz, Rabbi of Zbarazh
 * Stanisław Wyspiański, poet and painter, born in Kraków
 * Volodymyr Yaniv, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome, born in Lviv
 * Daniel Yanofsky, Canadian chess master, born in Brody
 * Richard Yary, Ukrainian politician, born in Rzeszów
 * Grigory Yavlinsky Russian politician, born in Lviv
 * Kordian Józef Zamorski, general, born near Gorlice
 * Gabriela Zapolska, novelist and actress, born in Pidhaytsi
 * Velvel Zbarjer, singer, born in Zbarazh
 * Casimir Zeglen, inventor, born near Ternopil
 * Michael Zohary, botanist, born in Bibrka near Lviv
 * Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody