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The Jagiellonian University ( Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by
King Casimir III the Great King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the ...
, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland's most prestigious academic institution. The university has been viewed as a guardian of Polish culture, particularly for continuing operations during the
partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 12 ...
and the two World Wars, as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe. The campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the city of Kraków. The university consists of thirteen main faculties, in addition to three faculties composing the
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. It employs roughly 4,000 academics and provides education to more than 35,000 students who study in 166 fields. The main language of instruction is Polish, although around 30 degrees are offered in English and some in German. The university library is among the largest of its kind and houses a number of medieval manuscripts, including the landmark ''De Revolutionibus'' by alumnus Nicolaus Copernicus. In addition to Copernicus, the university's notable alumni include heads of state
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, Pope John Paul II, and Andrzej Duda; Polish prime ministers Beata Szydło and Józef Cyrankiewicz; renowned cultural figures Jan Kochanowski, Stanisław Lem, and Krzysztof Penderecki; and leading intellectuals and researchers such as Hugo Kołłątaj,
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,
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Leo Sternbach Leo Sternbach (May 7, 1908 – September 28, 2005) was a Polish American chemist who is credited with first synthesizing benzodiazepines, the main class of tranquilizers. Background and family Sternbach was born on May 7, 1908, in Opatija, K ...
, and
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. Four
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have been affiliated with the university, all in literature: Ivo Andrić and Wisława Szymborska, who studied there, and Czesław Miłosz and Olga Tokarczuk, who taught there. Faculty and graduates of the university have been elected to the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and other honorary societies. The Jagiellonian University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. The CWTS Leiden Ranking, which reviews the scientific performance of more than 1,200 global universities, has placed the university at #1 in Poland, #74 regionally, and #250 globally.


History


Founding the university

In the mid-14th century,
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realised that the nation needed a class of educated people, especially lawyers, who could arrange a better set of the country's laws and administer the courts and offices. His efforts to found an institution of higher learning in Poland were rewarded when Pope Urban V granted him permission to set up a university in Kraków. A royal charter of foundation was issued on 12 May 1364, and a simultaneous document was issued by the city council granting privileges to the '' Studium Generale''. Development of the University of Kraków stalled upon the death of its founder ( King Casimir), and lectures were held in various places across the city, including, amongst others, in professors' houses, churches and in the cathedral school on the Wawel Hill. It is believed that the construction of a building to house the ''Studium Generale'' began on Plac Wolnica in what is today the district of Kazimierz. After a period of low interest and lack of funds, the institution was restored in the 1390s by Jadwiga, king of Poland, the daughter of King Louis the Great of Hungary and Poland. The royal couple, Jadwiga and her husband Władysław II Jagiełło decided that, instead of building new premises for the university, it would be better to buy an existing edifice; it was thus that a building on Żydowska Street, which had previously been the property of the Pęcherz family, was acquired in 1399. The Queen donated all of her personal jewelry to the university, allowing it to enroll 203 students. The faculties of astronomy, law and theology attracted eminent scholars: for example, John Cantius,
Stanisław of Skarbimierz Stanisław of Skarbimierz (1360–1431; Latinised as ''Stanislaus de Scarbimiria'') was the first rector of the University of Krakow following its restoration in 1399. He was the author of ''Sermones sapientiales'' ( pl, Kazania sapiencjalne), com ...
,
Paweł Włodkowic Paweł Włodkowic (Latin: ''Paulus Vladimiri'') (ca. 1370 – 9 October 1435) was a Polish scholar, jurist and rector of the Kraków Academy. He advocated a form of religious tolerance and defended Poland and native non-Christian tribes agai ...
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, and Albert Brudzewski, who from 1491 to 1495 was one of Nicolaus Copernicus' teachers. The university was the first university in Europe to establish independent chairs in
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and Astronomy. This rapid expansion in the university's faculty necessitated the purchase of larger premises in which to house them; it was thus that the building known today as the '' Collegium Maius'', with its quadrangle and beautiful arcade, came into being towards the beginning of the 15th century. The ''Collegium Maius qualities, many of which directly contributed to the sheltered, academic atmosphere at the university, became widely respected, helping the university establish its reputation as a place of learning in Central Europe.


Golden age of the Renaissance

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, Germany, and Spain. During the second half of the 15th century, over 40 percent of students came from the outside of the Kingdom of Poland. The first chancellor of the university was Piotr Wysz, and the first professors were Czechs, Germans and Poles, most of them trained at the
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in Prague. By 1520 Greek philology was introduced by Constanzo Claretti and Wenzel von Hirschberg; Hebrew was also taught. At this time, the ''Collegium Maius'' consisted of seven reading rooms, six of which were named for the great ancient scholars: Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Galen, Ptolemy, and Pythagoras. Furthermore, it was during this period that the faculties of Law, Medicine, Theology, and Philosophy were established in their own premises; two of these buildings, the ''Collegium Iuridicum'' and ''Collegium Minus'', survive to this day. The golden era of the University of Kraków took place during the Polish Renaissance, between 1500 and 1535, when it was attended by 3,215 students in the first decade of the 16th century, and it was in these years that the foundations for the Jagiellonian Library were set, which allowed for the addition of a library floor to the ''Collegium Maius''. The library's original rooms in which all books were chained to their cases in order to prevent theft are no longer used as such. However, they are still occasionally open to hosting visiting lecturers' talks. As the university's popularity, along with that of the ever more provincial Kraków's, declined in later centuries, the number of students attending the university also fell and, as such, the attendance record set in the early 16th-century wasn't surpassed until the late 18th century. This phenomenon was recorded as part of a more general economic and political decline seen in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was suffering from the effects of poor governance and the policies of hostile neighbors at the time. In fact, despite a number of expansion projects during the late 18th century, many of the university's buildings had fallen into disrepair and were being used for a range of other purposes; in the university's archives, there is one entry which reads: 'Nobody lives in the building, nothing happens there. If the lecture halls underwent refurbishment they could be rented out to accommodate a laundry'. This period thus represents one of the darkest periods in the university's history and is almost certainly the one during which the closure of the institution seemed most imminent.


Turmoil and near closure after the partitions

After the third partition of Poland in 1795 and the ensuing Napoleonic Wars, Kraków became a
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under the protection of the Austrian Empire; this, however, was not to last long. In 1846, after the Kraków Uprising, the city and its university became part of the Austrian Empire.  The Austrians were in many ways hostile to the institution and, soon after their arrival, removed many of the furnishings from the ''Collegium Maius ''Auditorium Maximum'' in order to convert it into a grain store. However, the threat of closure of the University was ultimately dissipated by Ferdinand I of Austria's decree to maintain it. By the 1870s the fortunes of the university had improved so greatly that many scholars had returned. The liquefaction of nitrogen and oxygen was successfully demonstrated by professors Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski in 1883. Thereafter the Austrian authorities took on a new role in the development of the university and provided funds for the construction of a number of new buildings, including the neo-gothic '' Collegium Novum'', which opened in 1887. It was, conversely, from this building that in 1918 a large painting of ''
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by Polish students advocating the reestablishment of an independent Polish state. For the 500th anniversary of the university's foundation, a monument to Copernicus was placed in the quadrangle of the ''Collegium Maius''; this statue is now to be found in the direct vicinity of the ''Collegium Novum'', outside the ''Collegium Witkowskiego'', to where it was moved in 1953. Nevertheless, it was in the Grzegórzecka and the Kopernika areas that much of the university's expansion took place up to 1918; during this time the ''Collegium Medicum'' was relocated to a site just east of the centre, and was expanded with the addition of a number of modern teaching hospitals – this 'medical campus' remains to this day. By the late 1930s, the number of students at the university had increased dramatically to almost six thousand. Now a major centre for education in the independent
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, the university attained government support for the purchase of building plots for new premises, as a result of which a number of residencies were built for students and professors alike. However, of all the projects begun during this era, the most important would have to be the creation of the Jagiellonian Library. The library's monumental building, construction of which began in 1931, was finally completed towards the end of the interwar period, which allowed the university's many varied literary collections to be relocated to their new home by the outbreak of war in 1939.


Modern era and renovation

On November 6, 1939, following the Nazi invasion of Poland, 184 professors were arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp during an operation codenamed '' Sonderaktion Krakau'' (Special Operation Krakow). The university, along with the rest of Poland's higher and secondary education, was closed for the remainder of World War II. Despite the university's reopening after the cessation of hostilities in 1945, the new government of Poland was hostile to the teachings of the pre-war university and the faculty was suppressed by the Communists in 1954. By 1957 the Polish government decided that it would invest in the establishment of new facilities near
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and expansion of other smaller existing facilities. Construction work proved slow and many of the stated goals were never achieved; it was this poor management that eventually led a number of scholars to openly criticise the government for its apparent lack of interest in educational development and disregard for the university's future. A number of new buildings, such as the ''Collegium Paderevianum'', were built with funds from the legacy of Ignacy Paderewski. By 1989 Poland had overthrown its Communist government. In that same year, the Jagiellonian University successfully completed the purchase of its first building plot in Pychowice, Kraków, where, from 2000, construction of a new complex of university buildings, the so-called Third Campus, began. The new campus, officially named the '600th Anniversary Campus', was developed in conjunction with the new LifeScience Park, which is managed by the Jagiellonian Centre for Innovation, the university's research consortium. Public funds earmarked for the project amounted to 946.5 million zlotys, or 240 million euros. Poland's entry into the European Union in 2004 has proved instrumental in improving the fortunes of the Jagiellonian University, which has seen huge increases in funding from both central government and European authorities, allowing it to develop new departments, research centres, and better support the work of its students and academics.


International partnerships

The university's academic advancement in both Poland and abroad is illustrated by its widely recognized research achievements. The scientists and physicians from the Collegium Medicum carry out pioneer studies, e.g. in cardiac surgery, urology and neurology, often leading to the development of novel treatment methods. Their findings have been published in international journals such as European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet. UJ archaeologists lead explorations of ancient sites in various parts of the world, including Egypt, Cyprus, Central America, South Asia and Altay. The astronomers take part in major international projects, including H.E.S.S. and VIPERS. The work of UJ bio-technologists has been published in journals, such as Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry,
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, and European Journal of Human Genetics. In the English-speaking world, the Jagiellonian University has international partnerships with the University of Cambridge, University of Melbourne, University of Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles, London School of Economics, University of Rochester, University of California, Irvine,
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. In the French-speaking world, partner universities include the Sorbonne, University of Montpellier. UJ also maintains strong academic partnership with Heidelberg University, Germany's oldest university. The Jagiellonian University offers specializations in German law, in conjunction with Heidelberg University and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Other cooperation agreements exist with
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, University of Vienna, University of Tokyo,
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, Technical University of Munich, and Free University of Berlin.


Libraries

The university's main library, the Jagiellonian Library (''Biblioteka Jagiellońska''), is one of Poland's largest, with almost 6.5 million volumes; it is a constituent of the Polish National Libraries system. It is home to a world-renowned collection of medieval manuscripts, which includes Copernicus' ''De Revolutionibus'', the '' Balthasar Behem Codex'' and the ''
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.'' The library also has an extensive collection of underground political literature (so-called ''drugi obieg'' or '' samizdat'') from Poland's period of Communist rule between 1945 and 1989. The beginning of the Jagiellonian Library is traditionally considered the same as that of the entire university – in 1364;Visiting the Biblioteka Jagiellonska (Jagiellonian Library) in Cracow
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however, instead of having one central library it had several smaller branches at buildings of various departments (the largest collection was in '' Collegium Maius'', where works related to theology and liberal arts were kept). After 1775, during the reforms of Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, which established the first
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of Education in the world, various small libraries of the university were formally centralised into one public collection in ''Collegium Maius''. During the
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, the library continued to grow thanks to the support of such people as Karol Józef Teofil Estreicher and Karol Estreicher. Its collections were made public in 1812. Since 1932, it has been recognised as a legal deposit library, comparable to the
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at the University of Oxford or Cambridge University Library or Trinity College Library in Dublin, and thus has the right to receive a copy of any book issued by Polish publishers within Poland. In 1940, the library finally obtained a new building of its own, which has subsequently been expanded on two occasions, most recently in 1995–2001. During the Second World War, library workers cooperated with underground universities. Since the 1990s, the library's collection has become increasingly digitised. In addition to the Jagiellonian Library, the university maintains a large medical library (''Biblioteka Medyczna'') and many other subject specialised libraries in its various faculties and institutes. Finally, the collections of the university libraries' collections are enriched by the presence of the university's archives, which date back to the university's own foundation and record the entire history of its development up to the present day.


Notable alumni


Faculties and departments

The university is divided into the following faculties, which have different organisational sub-structures partly reflecting their history and partly their operational needs. Teaching and research at UJ are organised by these faculties, including a number of additional institutes: * Law and Administration * Medicine * Pharmacy and Medical Analysis * Health Care * Philosophy * History * Philology * Polish Language and Literature * Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science * Mathematics and Computer Science * Chemistry * Biology * Earth Sciences * Management and Social Communication * International and Political Studies * Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology * University Center of Veterinary Medicine (joint faculty with
Agricultural University of Kraków The Agricultural University of Kraków (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie''), located in Kraków, Poland, became a university by decree of the Council of Ministers as of 28 September 1972. Formerly, it was known a ...
) * National Center of Synchrotron Radiation SOLARIS (off-departmental facility) Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum is affiliated with the following hospitals and clinics: *University Hospital in Krakow-Prokocim * Children's University Hospital in Krakow * University Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation in Zakopane * Dental University Clinic in Krakow * John Paul II's Specialist Hospital in Krakow The new seat of the University Hospital has been recently opened at Prokocim in 2019, as a result of more than 1.2 billion zloty investment projects. As 2022 the University Hospital in Krakow is the biggest supra-regional public hospital in Poland and comprises: 37 clinical departments, 12 diagnostic and research institutes, and 71 out-patient units.


Notable professors

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Stanisław of Skarbimierz Stanisław of Skarbimierz (1360–1431; Latinised as ''Stanislaus de Scarbimiria'') was the first rector of the University of Krakow following its restoration in 1399. He was the author of ''Sermones sapientiales'' ( pl, Kazania sapiencjalne), com ...
(1360–1431), rector, theologian, lawyer *
Paweł Włodkowic Paweł Włodkowic (Latin: ''Paulus Vladimiri'') (ca. 1370 – 9 October 1435) was a Polish scholar, jurist and rector of the Kraków Academy. He advocated a form of religious tolerance and defended Poland and native non-Christian tribes agai ...
(1370–1435), lawyer, diplomat and politician, representative of Poland at the
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* Albert Brudzewski (1445–1497), astronomer and mathematician * Maciej Miechowita (1457–1523), historian, chronicler, geographer, medic *
Marcin Szlachciński Marcin Szlachciński ( ''Latin'': ''Martinus Slachcinius''; born: 1511–1512) was a Polish renaissance scholar; Polish, Latin and Ancient Greek translator; poet; philosopher and professor at the Jagiellonian University. Personal life Szlachci ...
(1511/1512–?), scholar, translator, poet and philosopher * Jan Brożek (1585–1652), mathematician, physician and astronomer *
Franz Mertens Franz Mertens (20 March 1840 – 5 March 1927) (also known as Franciszek Mertens) was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Schroda in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland) and died in Vienna, Austria. Th ...
(1840–1927), mathematician * Henryk Jordan (1842–1907), professor of obstetrics * Walery Jaworski (1849–1924), gastroenterologist * Ludwik Rydygier (1850–1920), general surgeon *
Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (; 11 August 1850 – 31 October 1921) was a Polish pathologist born in Żerków.Artery of Adamkiewicz and the
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Napoleon Cybulski Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski (Polish pronunciation: ; 14 September 1854 – 26 April 1919) was a Polish physiologist and a pioneer of endocrinology and electroencephalography. In 1895, he isolated and identified adrenaline. Life Napoleon Cybulski wa ...
(1854-1919), pioneer in endocrinology *
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(1863–1932), agrotechnician and chemist * Władysław Natanson (1864–1937), physicist *
Stanisław Estreicher Stanisław Estreicher (26 November 1869 – 28 December 1939) 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, metho ...
(1869–1939), founder of the Jagiellonian University Museum * Tadeusz Estreicher (1871–1952), pioneer in cryogenics *
Marian Smoluchowski Marian Smoluchowski (; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the Polish territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics, and an avid mountaineer. Life Born into an upper-c ...
(1872–1917), pioneer of statistical physics * Bohdan Lepky (1872–1941), literature * Franciszek Bujak (1875-1953), historian *
Stanisław Kutrzeba Stanisław Marian Kutrzeba (1876–1946) was a Polish historian and politician who was Professor of the Jagiellonian University from 1908, and then until the end of his life the Chair of Studies in Polish law. He was chair of the Law Department ( ...
(1876–1946), rector, General Secretary of the Polish Academy of Learning * Andrzej Gawroński (1885–1927), founder of the Polish Oriental Society, master of Sanskrit * Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), historian and politician * Jan Zawidzki (1886–1928), chemist and historian * Tadeusz Sulimirski (1898–1983), historian and archaeologist, experts on the ancient Sarmatians *
Roman Grodecki Roman Grodecki (21 April 1889, in Rzeszów – 17 April 1964, in Kraków), Poraj coat of arms, was a Polish economic historian, a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Grode ...
(1889–1964), economic historian *
Stanisław Smreczyński Stanisław Smreczyński (11 July 1899 – 6 April 1975) was the founding father of the Department of Systematic Zoology and Zoogeography Zoogeography is the branch of the science of biogeography that is concerned with geographic distributio ...
(1899–1975), zoologist * Henryk Niewodniczański (1900–1968), physicist * Adam Vetulani (1901–1976), historian of medieval and canon law *
Maria Ludwika Bernhard Maria Ludwika Bernhard (August 6, 1908 – 1998) was a Polish classical archaeologist and a specialist in Greek Art. During the German Occupation of Poland in World War II, Bernhard was living in Warsaw and was active in the Polish Resistance M ...
(1908–1998), archaeologist * Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), poet, recipient of the 1996
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* Ryszard Gryglewski (born 1932), pharmacologist and physician, a discoverer of prostacyclin *
Andrzej Szczeklik Andrzej Szczeklik (July 29, 1938 – February 3, 2012) was a Polish immunologist working at the Jagiellonian University School of Medicine (''Collegium Medicum'') in Kraków. Having received numerous distinctions for his research, Szczeklik was ...
(1932–2012), physician *
Jan Woleński Jan Hertrich-Woleński (also known as Jan Woleński; born 21 September 1940) is a Polish philosopher specializing in the history of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic and in analytic philosophy. He has spent most of his academic career at the J ...
(born 1940), philosopher * Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), sociologist *
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(born 1955), biologist, recipient of the 2011 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science *
Krzysztof Kościelniak Krzysztof Kościelniak (born 7 August 1965 in Rabka, Poland) – a Catholic priest, full Professor of History (History of the Orient, Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, History of Religion, History of the Oriental Churches). Currently, a full professo ...
(born 1965), historian


Student associations

In 1851, the university's first student scientific association was founded. In 2021, over 70 student scientific associations exist at the Jagiellonian University, most of them affiliated with Collegium Medicum. Usually, their purpose is to promote students' scientific achievements by organizing lecture sessions, science excursions, and international student conferences, such as the International Workshop for Young Mathematicians, which is organized by the Zaremba Association of Mathematicians. The links below provide further information on student activities at the Jagiellonian:
University Study Oriented System (USOS)

Scientific Circles

Student Organizations

Ensembles


See also

* List of medieval universities *
Nawojka Nawojka (pronounced: ; 14th-century – 15th-century) was a medieval Poland, Polish woman known to have dressed as a boy in order to study at the Jagiellonian University, University of Kraków in the 15th century. She later became a nun. She ...
, the university's legendary first female student from the 15th century * Sonderaktion Krakau, a Nazi German operation against professors and academics from the University of Kraków * Neuronus IBRO & IRUN Neuroscience Forum
Scholars and Literati at the University of Cracow (1316–1800)Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae – RETE


Notes and references


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