Michael Bobrzynski

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Michael Bobrzynski (30 September 1849–3 July 1935) was a Polish historian, born at Cracow, in Galicia. He was educated there, graduating at the gymnasiun and the university. In 1872 he received the degree of LL.D. and in the following year became assistant professor in the history of Polish jurisprudence, assuming similar duties in regard to German law in 1876. in 1877 he was made professor of law in the University of Cracow. From 1885 to 1891 he was a member of the Reichsrat and held many other honorary and responsible positions, and from 1890 to 1901 he was president of the Galician board of education. He became Governor of Galicia in 1908. His most important publications are his Geschichte Polens (1879), which aroused much criticism on account of its bitter attacks on Poland's past, and his contributions to Lencl's Polnische Rechtsdenkmäler (1874-82).