Stanisław Kętrzyński (; 10 September 1878 in
Lwów,
Austro-Hungary
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– 26 May 1950 in
Warsaw
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,
Poland
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) was a Polish historian, diplomat and
freemason.
He was the son of Polish historian
Wojciech Kętrzyński
Wojciech Kętrzyński (born Adalbert von Winkler; 11 July 1838 – 15 January 1918), was a Polish historian and the director of the Ossolineum Library in Lemberg, then the capital of Galicia, Austrian Empire. He focused on Polish history at a ...
.
During the
Second World War
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Stanisław Kętrzyński was a prisoner in the
German
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**Ge ...
Auschwitz concentration camp.
Among his students were
Stanisław Arnold,
Aleksander Gieysztor
Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish medievalist historian.
Life
Aleksander Gieysztor was born to a Polish family in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a railwayman. In 1921, the family relocated to Po ...
,
Jadwiga Karwasińska and
Adam Wolff.
[''Biogramy uczonych polskich'', część I: ''Nauki społeczne'', zeszyt 2: ''K-O'', (red.) A. Śródka i P. Szczawiński, Wrocław 1984, p. 49-53.]
Works
* ''
Gall-Anonim i jego kronika'' (1898)
* ''O rzekomej wyprawie
Władysława Hermana na Szczecin'' (1899)
* ''O paliuszu biskupów polskich XI wieku'' (1902)
* ''O zaginionym żywocie
św. Wojciecha'' (1902)
* ''Ze studiów nad Gerwazym z Tilbury'' (1903)
* ''O Astryku Anastazym'' (1906)
* ''Uwagi i przyczynki nad kancelaryą koronną
Kazimierza Jagiellończyka'' (1912)
* ''O datach tzw. niejednolitych w dokumentach polskich'' (1927)
* ''Do genezy kanclerstwa koronnego'' (1929)
* ''Uwagi o pieczęciach Władysława Łokietka i Kazimierza Wielkiego'' (1929)
* ''Na marginesie "Genealogii Piastów"
O. Balzera'' (1931)
* ''Zarys nauki o dokumencie polskim wieków średnich'' (1934)
* ''Ze studiów genealogicznych'' (1934)
* ''O zaginionej metropolii czasów
Bolesława Chrobrego'' (1947)
* ''Polska X-XI wieku'' (1961, editor
Aleksander Gieysztor
Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish medievalist historian.
Life
Aleksander Gieysztor was born to a Polish family in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a railwayman. In 1921, the family relocated to Po ...
)
Footnotes
1878 births
1950 deaths
Ambassadors of Poland to Russia
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Diplomats of the Second Polish Republic
Polish people of German descent
Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
Writers from Lviv
Diplomats from Lviv
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