Institution

Kharkiv Collegium

1726 · 18th century

The Kharkiv Collegium was an Orthodox school in Kharkiv, founded in 1726 when Bishop Epifaniy Tikhorsky moved the Belgorod seminary there. Modelled on the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, it taught Latin, rhetoric, philosophy and theology and was the leading school of Sloboda Ukraine in the 18th century; the philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda taught there. Its role passed to Kharkiv University after 1805.

Kharkiv Collegium
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Sloboda Ukraine

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