Ignacy Chrzanowski (5 February 1866 in Stok – 19 January 1940) was a Polish historian of literature, professor of the Jagiellonian University, arrested by the Nazis as part of the

Sonderaktion Krakau ''Sonderaktion Krakau'' was a German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German-occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II. It was carried out as part of the much bro ...

and killed in the

Sachsenhausen concentration camp Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoner ...

. His daughter was Hanna Helena Chrzanowska.

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1866 births 1940 deaths Academic staff of Jagiellonian University Polish literary historians People who died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Polish people executed in Nazi concentration camps Polish people executed abroad People from Radzyń Podlaski County Executed people from Lublin Voivodeship Members of the Lwów Scientific Society Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Burials at Rakowicki Cemetery People from Congress Poland {{Poland-bio-stub