Polish Academy of Learning
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The Polish Academy of Learning (Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności), headquartered in Kraków, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland, having the nature of an academy of sciences.
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[edit] History
The Polish Academy of Learning (Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, abbreviated PAU), to 1919 called the "Academy of Learning" (Akademia Umiejętności, abbreviated AU), founded in 1872 in Kraków as a continuation of the Kraków Society of Learning (Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie, established 1816), was the most important Polish learned organization of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its chief purposes were to organize, support and conduct learning and to represent Polish scientists and scholars to the world.
Merged in 1951 with other institutions to form the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN), headquartered in Warsaw, in 1989 the Polish Academy of Learning was reactivated as a separate institution.
The Polish name, Polska Akademia Umiejętności, might be rendered into English as "Polish Academy of Sciences." The latter name, however, has been preempted by the other institution, Polska Akademia Nauk.
[edit] The Academy's original divisions:
- I - Philological (Filologiczny)
- II - Historical-Philosophical (Historyczno-Filozoficzny)
- III - Mathematical — Natural Sciences (Matematyczno-Przyrodniczy)
- IV - Medical (Lekarski), from 1930.
[edit] Modern divisions:
- I - Philological (Filologiczny)
- II - Historical-Philosophical (Historyczno-Filozoficzny)
- III - Mathematical-Physical-Chemical (Matematyczno-Fizyczno-Chemiczny)
- IV - Natural Sciences (Przyrodniczy)
- V - Medical (Lekarski)
- VI - Artistic (Twórczości Artystycznej).
[edit] Presidents of the Academy
- J. Majer (1872–90);
- Stanisław Tarnowski (1890–1917);
- K. Morawski (1917–25);
- J.M. Rozwadowski (1925–29);
- K. Kostanecki (1929–34);
- S. Wróblewski (1934–38);
- S. Kutrzeba (1939–46);
- K. Nitsch (1946–57);
- A. Krzyżanowski (1957–58);
- Gerard Labuda (1989–94);
- K. Kowalski (from 1994).
[edit] Secrataries-general of the Academy
- J. Szujski (1872–83),
- Stanisław Tarnowski (1883–90),
- S. Smolka (1890–1903),
- B. Ulanowski (1903–19),
- K. Kostanecki (1919–21),
- S. Wróblewski (1921–26),
- S. Kutrzeba (1926–39),
- T. Kowalski (1939–48),
- J. Dąbrowski (1948–57),
- A. Vetulani (1957–58),
- J. Skąpski (1989–94),
- J. Wyrozumski (od 1994).
[edit] Membership
Till 1952 PAU had a total of 676 domestic and 264 international members.
[edit] Famous members:
- Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882-1954), astronomer, mathematician and geodesist.
- Gerard Labuda (b. 1916), medieval historian.
- Kazimierz Piwarski (1903-1968), historian of Pomerania, Silesia, East Prussia.
- Zygmunt Wojciechowski (1900-1955), historian of state and law, founder of the Western Institute.
[edit] See also
- Polish Academy of Sciences (headquartered in Warsaw).
