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Polish Academy of Learning
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The Polish Academy of Learning (Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności; PAU), headquartered in Kraków, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland, having the nature of an academy of sciences.
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.
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The Polish Academy of Learning was formed from Academy of Learning (Akademia Umiejętności; AU) in 1919. AU was primary Polish scientific institution during the annexation of Poland founded in 1871 in Kraków and formed as a continuation of the Kraków Scientific Society (Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie). After Poland's independence was restored, AU changed its statute and in 1919 began activity as the Polish Academy of Learning.
Merged in 1951 with other institutions to form the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk; PAN), headquartered in Warsaw, in 1989 the Polish Academy of Learning was reactivated as a separate institution.
In 1942 a continuation of the Polish Academy of Learning, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, was established in New York City by Bronisław Malinowski, Oskar Halecki and other scholars associated with the Academy, which had been forcibly closed down by the occupying Germans. Following the collapse of communism in Poland, the Polish Academy of Learning was revived and became affiliated with the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (as the latter had meanwhile been renamed).[1]
- I - Philological (Filologiczny)
- II - Historical-Philosophical (Historyczno-Filozoficzny)
- III - Mathematical — Natural Sciences (Matematyczno-Przyrodniczy)
- IV - Medical (Lekarski), from 1930.
- 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).
- Józef Majer (1872-90),
- Stanisław Tarnowski (1890-1917),
- Kazimierz Morawski (1917-25),
- Jan Michał Rozwadowski (1925-29),
- Kazimierz Kostanecki (1929-34),
- Stanisław Wróblewski (1934-38),
- Stanisław Kutrzeba (1939-46),
- Kazimierz Nitsch (1946-57),
- Adam Krzyżanowski (1957-58),
- Gerard Labuda (1989-94),
- Kazimierz Kowalski (1994-2001)
- Andrzej Białas (from 2001)
- Józef Szujski (1872-83),
- Stanisław Tarnowski (1883-90),
- Stanisław Smolka (1890-1903),
- Bolesław Ulanowski (1903-19),
- Kazimierz Kostanecki (1919-21),
- Stanisław Wróblewski (1921-26),
- Stanisław Kutrzeba (1926-39),
- Tadeusz Kowalski (1939-48),
- Jan Konstanty Dąbrowski (1948-57),
- Adam Vetulani (1957-58),
- Józef Skąpski (1989-94),
- Jerzy Wyrozumski (od 1994)
Till 1952 PAU had a total of 676 domestic and 264 international 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.
- ^ Thaddeus V. Gromada, "Haiman and Halecki in Light of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America Archives," Polish American Studies, vol. LXIII, no. 2 (autumn 2006), pp. 79-92.