Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński

Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński (1886 - 1963) was a Polish

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, historian of Polish and Slavic literature, Professor of

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Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

. Vrtel-Wierczyński attended gymnasium in Stryj before studying at Lwow University. From 1906 to 1908 he was a scholarship holder of

Ossolineum Ossoliński National Institute ( pl, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now L ...

Lwów Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

. He later lectured at

Jan Kazimierz University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

in Lwów. From 1927 to 1937 and 1947 to 1950 he was director of the university library in

. From 1937 to 1940 and 1945 to 1947 he was director of the

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. In 1948 he established the Polish Literary Biography, created within the structures of the Institute for Literary Research. He also published monuments of mediaeval literature. He was creator and (from 1952 to 1962) director of the Department of West-Slavic Literature (later renamed Department of Slavic Literature). At the Różany Potok, a house estate adjacent to Poznań university campus there is S. Vrtel-Wierczyński Street. Polish librarians Polish bibliographers 1886 births 1963 deaths {{Poland-bio-stub