Marian Panchyshyn

Although his family did not have the financial means to allow him to pursue a higher education, he was able to study medicine at the University of Lviv thanks to grants from private foundations.

[2] He also joined the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and served as rector of the Ukrainian Secret University ({lang-ua:Таємний український університет}) in 1924–1925.

He was elected to the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine, and voted for the inclusion of Galicia in the Ukrainian SSR.

After the Germans dissolved the government in July the same year, he was made head of the clinic of the medical institute in Lviv.

Panchyshyn also worked to restore the medical faculty of the University of Lviv during World War II; although the German occupiers had severely restricted access to higher education for those they considered to be Untermenschen, Panchyshyn was allowed to teach courses at the university.