Dmytro Antonovych Дмитро Антонович
Secretary/Minister of Naval Affairs
In office January 6, 1918 – February 9, 1918
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Vynnychenko Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	position disbanded
Minister of Arts
In office December 26, 1918 – February 13, 1919
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Chekhivsky
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	position disbanded
Personal details
Born	(1877-11-14)November 14, 1877 Kyiv, Russian Empire
Died	October 12, 1945(1945-10-12) (aged 67) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Political party	RUP, USDRP
Spouse	Kateryna Antonovych (nee Serebriakova)
Children	Marko Antonovych Mykhailo Antonovych Maryna Rudnytska
Occupation	historian, politician, diplomat
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Dmytro Antonovych (14 November 1877, in Kyiv – 12 October 1945, in Prague) was a Ukrainian politician and art historian.

Professor Dmytro Antonovych was the son of two Ukrainian historians: his father was Volodymyr Antonovych and his mother was Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk (1859–1942), an archaeologist^[1] from the city of Khorol (today – Poltava Oblast). He married the artist and art historian Kateryna Antonovych, and was the father of Marko Antonovych and Mykhailo Antonovych.

In 1900–1905, he was one of the founders and leaders of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), established in 1900 in the city of Kharkiv, and from 1905, of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (USDRP).^[2]

Antonovych was a member of the Ukrainian Central Council, and he served as the minister of naval affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic, in cabinets headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Vsevolod Holubovych (1917-1918), and the minister of arts in Volodymyr Chekhivsky’s government (1918/1919).^[3] Then Antonovych was the president of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission of the UNR in Rome.

His works include Estetychne vykhovannia Shevchenka (Shevchenko's Aesthetic Education, 1914), Ukraïns'ke mystetstvo (Ukrainian Art, 1923), Trysta rokiv ukraïns'koho teatru (1619–1919) (Three Hundred Years of Ukrainian Theater [1619–1919], 1925), T. Shevchenko iak maliar (T. Shevchenko, the Artist, 1937), and Deutsche Einflüsse auf die ukrainische Kunst (1942).^[4]

• Antonovych, Dmytro in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).