Władysław Łoziński also known as ''Wojtek ze Smolnicy'' and ''Władysław Lubicz'' (1843–1913) was a Polish writer, historian and art collector, known for his books about the

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Biography

Born on 29 May 1843 in Opary near

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. His father Walerian Łozinski was a Post Office officer and mother Julia born Lewicka (Lewicki – family). The brother of

Walery Łoziński Walery Władysław Daniel Łoziński (1880–1944) was a Polish geographer, geomorphologist and soil scientist known for introducing the concept of periglaciation into geomorphology in 1909. Łoziński extended the work of Swedish geologist Johan ...

, also a writer, and Bronisław Łoziński – lawyer, and cousin of historian –

Karol Szajnocha Karol Szajnocha (1818–1868) was a Polish writer, historian, and independence activist. Self-taught, he would nonetheless become a notable Polish historian of the partitions period. Biography Karol Szajnocha was born as on 20 November 1818 in K ...

. He studied philosophy at the University of Lwów, and was an editor of many Galician newspapers and magazines (Dziennik Literacki, Przegląd Powszechny, Gwiazdka Cieszyńska), and especially the Gazeta Lwowska which he reformed and expanded. He was the first secretary of the Ossolineum Foundation, vice-president of the Historical Institute (Towarzystwo Historyczne), president of the Society of Friends of Arts (Towarzystwo Przyjaciól Sztuk Pięknych) and from 1891 a member of the Academy of Skills (Akademia Umiejętności, a precursor of the Polish Academy of Learning). He was also a

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from Galicia to the

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National Council in

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and later a member of the Lord's Chamber. He died on 20 May 1913 in

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and buried at

Lychakivskiy Cemetery Lychakiv Cemetery ( uk, Личаківський цвинтар, translit=Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar; pl, Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie), officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" ( uk, Державний істор ...

Works

Łoziński was the author of both fictional, historical novels and more academic studies. His interested centered on the

. Fiction: * Oko proroka (Eye of the prophet) (1899) Historical texts: * Prawem i lewem. Obyczaje na Czerwonej Rusi w pierwszej połowie XVII wieku. (Right and wrong. The customs of Red Ruthenia in the first half of the 17th century) (1903) * Życie polskie w dawnych wiekach (Life in Poland in old times) (1907) 3 Stefanyka Street, Lviv (02)

Legacy

Lozinski bequeathed his art collection to the city and the building accommodating it, the palace formerly owned by Isabella Diduszycka at 3 Stefanyka Street, to his nephew Valerii. During the political instability of 1914, Valerii sold the house to the City of Lviv, after which it became permanent home to the Lviv Art Gallery, now the Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Museum. 1843 births 1913 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish male writers 19th-century Polish historians {{Poland-historian-stub