Stanisław Leszczycki (8 May 1907, in

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– 17 June 1996, in

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) was a Polish geographer. He was a professor at the

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since 1948 and the

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since 1952 (in each of them he created an Institute of Geography). He was President of the

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in 1968–1972, as well as a member of many

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and the author of 200

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s on various subdisciplines.

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