Adam Honory Kirkor (21 January 1818 – 23 November 1886) was a
Polish
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publisher, journalist and archeologist.
Biography
Adam was born in Sliwino on 21 January 1818, finishing school in
Mogilev
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. From 1834 to 1866, he worked in
Vilnius
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, later in
Saint Petersburg
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and
Kraków
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. He was part of the
Vilnius Archaeological Commission
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from 1855. In 1859, Adam bought a printing house from Christian Theophilus Glücksberg and started printing books, along with newspapers in Polish, Lithuanian and Russian.
Adam became part of the
Russian Imperial Archaeological Society in 1856, taking part in the writing of
Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia. His name is featured in the first volume of the encyclopedia. He joined the in 1864.
Despite his activity in such projects he went bankrupt, eventually moving to Kraków. Adam helped in transforming the Kraków Scientific Society into the
Academy of Learning Academy of Learning ( pl, Akademia Umiejętności; AU) was a primary Polish scientific institution during the annexation of Poland established in 1871. It was founded in Kraków as a continuation of the ''Kraków Scientific Society'' (''Towarzystw ...
, which he was appointed part of in 1873. From 1875, he started participating in archaeological excavations near Kraków.
Adam was married to Helena Kirkorowa until 1857 due to her leaving him for another man.
After the divorce, he married Maria Celestyna Boczkowska.
See also
*
''Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia'' (1859)
References
1818 births
1886 deaths
Place of death missing
Polish publishers (people)
19th-century Polish journalists
19th-century Polish archaeologists
19th-century publishers (people)
Polish writers in Belarusian
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