1. Oleksander Shulhyn was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a professor of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and a representative of Ukrainians in International Refugee Organization after World War II.
Oleksander Shulhyn was born in the village of Sofyne, Khorol county in Poltava Governorate in the family of a historian and pedagogue Yakiv Oleksander Shulhyn whose heritage is traced to the Cossack officers.
Oleksander Shulhyn initially enrolled at the mathematics-physics department of the Saint Petersburg State University in 1908.
In 1910 he transferred to the department of history and philosophy from which Oleksander Shulhyn graduated in 1915.
From July 1918, Oleksander Shulhyn played a less active role in the government serving for several diplomatic missions of Ukraine in Europe when he was appointed the Ambassador of Ukraine to Bulgaria by the government of the Hetman of Ukraine.
In 1919 Oleksander Shulhyn became a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and on 15 November 1920, he headed the Ukrainian delegation at the General Assembly of League of Nations in Geneva.
From 1921 Oleksander Shulhyn headed the Extraordinary diplomatic mission of Ukraine in Paris.
From 1923 to 1927 Oleksander Shulhyn lived in Paris and was a professor of the Ukrainian Free University and the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical University of Drahomanov, both in Prague, where he taught history and philosophy.
In 1926 Oleksander Shulhyn was appointed the minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in exile, leading the Ukrainian foreign policy until 1936.
Also, from 1929 to 1939 Oleksander Shulhyn chaired the Main Emigration Council, served as a chief editor of the Paris bi-monthly magazine La Revue de Promethee and the Paris weekly magazine Tryzub.