Jan W. Guthke – numizmatyk z Harbina (zarys biografii)
Jan W. Guthke: A numismatist of Harbin (A Biographical Outline)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the life and career of Jan Waldemar Guthke (1886–?). He was born in Komadzyn in a family of former German colonists. When he was a child his family moved to Łódź, where upon graduation he started working as a teacher and then he obtained an engineering degree. In the first years of the 20th century Jan W. Guthke often travelled abroad where he worked as specialist in agricultural machinery. During one of his trips he probably met his future wife Aniela née Hryniewicz. In 1911, he and his family presumably moved to the Far East oblasts of the Russian Empire and then, in approximately 1930, to Harbin in Manchuria. While he lived there he undertook to prepare a monograph about Polish coins from 1922–1938. He finished his work in November 1938, but he never published it. Jan W. Guthke is known to have still lived and worked as an engineer in Harbin in 1941. His further fate is not known.

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