Paul Zatkovich

Paul Zatkovich[a] (1852–1916) was a newspaper editor and cultural activist for Rusyns in the United States.

He was born in Ungvár, in the Ung County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Uzhhorod, Ukraine), where his father George Zatkovich was a professor in a school for cantors of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church.

He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1891 and was among the founders of the Greek Catholic Union of Rusyn Brotherhoods, a fraternal benefit association.

His son Gregory Zatkovich played a leading role for Rusyns during the establishment of the nation of Czechoslovakia.

Paul Zatkovich died in Brooklyn, New York, on October 8, 1916, and was buried in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.