Mikuláš Mušinka (; 20 February 1936 – 13 September 2024) was a Slovak folklorist and Ukrainian studies specialist, art historian, literary critic and bibliographer of Ukrainian (Lemko) origin. He held a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree (from 1967) and a Doctor of Philological Sciences degree (1992). Member of the International Commission for the Study of the National Culture of the Carpathians and the Balkans, a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (from 1989), President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Slovakia, head of the Association of Ukrainians in Slovakia (from 1990), and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (from 1997).
Works He researched Lemko folklore in Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, western Czechia, and Moravia,Микола Мушинка — Почесний доктор Острозької академії // Національний університет Острозька академія as well as Ukrainian-Slovak literary ties.
He authored around 200 scientific studies, over 1,000 articles, 350 reviews, and 50 books. More than 70 of these works are dedicated to Volodymyr Hnatiuk.Миколі Мушинці — 80! // Закарпатська академія мистецтв — офіційний сайт
Selected works: Z ukrainskoho folkloru skhidnoi Slovachchyny (1963) Ukrainska usna slovesnist (1973) Folklor rusyniv Voivodyny (1976, 1987)
References
Bibliography Mushynka Mykola Ivanovych / O. V. Myshanych, I. D. Krasovskyi, O. M. Mushynka // Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [Online] / Eds. : I. М. Dziuba, A. I. Zhukovsky, M. H. Zhelezniak [et al.] ; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society. – Kyiv : The NASU institute of Encyclopedic Research, 2020, upd. 2024. Віднянський С. В. Мушинка Микола // Енциклопедія історії України : у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України. — К. : Наукова думка, 2010. — Т. 7 : Мл — О. — С. 139-140. — ISBN 978-966-00-1061-1.