Stanisław Kętrzyński

Stanisław Kętrzyński (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf kɛnˈtʂɨɲskʲi]; born September 10, 1878 in Lwów, Austrian Empire, died May 26, 1950 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish historian and diplomat.

He was the son of Wojciech Kętrzyński from Lötzen (Lec), East Prussia, an Austrian citizen with Kashubian and Masurian ancestors, who became a Polish scholar.

During the Second World War Stanisław Kętrzyński was a prisoner in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.

Among his students were Stanisław Arnold, Aleksander Gieysztor, Jadwiga Karwasińska and Adam Wolff.[1]

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Footnotes

  1. Biogramy uczonych polskich, część I: Nauki społeczne, zeszyt 2: K-O, (red.) A. Śródka i P. Szczawiński, Wrocław 1984, p. 49-53.


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