"Дрогобич - місто Івана Франка" - нове франкознавче видання у Дрогобичі

Abstract

The suggested investigation clarifies the participation of Drohobych lawyers (of Jewish origin) in the process of solving Franko’s personal problems and juridical regulation of the problems of his relatives throughout 1887 – 1904.

On the basis of the survived epistolary heritage of the aforementioned period addressed to Franko the researcher managed to find out that Salio Gainsberg, Isaac Tigermann and Isidor Lauterbach were among such lawyers-assistants from Drohobych who busied themselves with the solution of Franko’s problems. Thus, Drohobych barrister Salio Gainsberg, after he had learned from book tradesman Victor Ungar that Franko wished to buy himself an estate in Drohobych, offered him to buy under order his father’s estate on the furtile land. To Isaac Tigermann Franko turned for various advocating advice and help and it was him that Fanko busied to acquire him an allotment after he had married his wife who had a good dowry and decided to insert the money into realty. A number of letters from the county drohobych advocate Isidor Lauterbach tells of how he helped Franko juridically to settle a family conflict in 1902–1904, when between Franko’s stepfather and brothers took place a dissention about the inheritance.

It is affirmed that the letters from Drohobych lawyers to Franko are unic first-hand sources which allow the researches to reconstruct and investigate little known facts from Franko’s life, his multisided activity, more in detail get acquainted with the activities of his correspondents and unknown hitherto facts from their personal life, especially, which concern their meetings with the writer.