Marian Plezia (b. 1917 in

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 ...

, d. 1996) was a

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

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 ...

. He was an expert in

medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...

Polish history The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars, ...

and author of a Latin-Polish

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ...

and a Medieval Latin-Polish dictionary.

Selected bibliography

* . Kraków: Polska Akademia 1946. * . . Edited by Kumaniecki Kazimierz. Warszawa: 1951 pp. 271–287. * ''Supplementary remarks on Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition''. Eos. 51: 241-249 (1961). * . Eos. 63: 37-42 (1975). * . Meander 36: 481-493 (1981). * . In: : Paul Moraux Gewidmet I. Edited by Wiesner Jürgen. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter 1985 pp. 1–11. *. Les Études Classiques 54: 383-385 (1986).

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1917 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish classical philologists Burials at Rakowicki Cemetery {{Poland-historian-stub