Irena Homola-Skąpska (12 January 1929 – 4 March 2017,

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

) was a Polish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. She graduated from the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in 1951. In 1989, she was appointed professor. She collaborated with

Polski Słownik Biograficzny ''Polski Słownik Biograficzny'' (''PSB''; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigners ...

since 1955.

Works

*''Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz (1823-1887)'' (1964) *''"Kwiat społeczeństwa...": (struktura społeczna i zarys położenia inteligencji krakowskiej w latach 1860-1914)'' (1984) *''Biografistyka w twórczości naukowej Stefana Kieniewicza'' (1993) *''Józef Dietl i jego Kraków'' (1993) *''Wspomnienie o Emanuelu Rostworowskim jako redaktorze Polskiego Słownika Biograficznego'' (1995) *''W salonach i traktierniach Krakowa: przemiany w środowisku społecznym Krakowa lat 1795-1846'' (2000) *34 articles in ''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Homola-Skapska, Irena 1929 births 2017 deaths Polish women historians Jagiellonian University alumni Polish women academics Place of birth missing 20th-century Polish historians Writers from Kraków Academic staff of Jagiellonian University