Karolina Lanckorońska (1898-2002) W stu dwudziestą rocznicę urodzin
Karolina Lanckorońska (1898-2002) One Hundred And Twentieth Birth Anniversary

Summary/Abstract: In August 2019, there is the 120th anniversary of the birth of an extraordinary woman. She was born in Vienna, her father was Karol Lanckoroński, collector, art historian, mother Małgorzata Lichnovsky. Karolina Lanckorońska was under the influence of her father and she always felt Polish. She was an art historian and was the first woman in Poland to become a lecturer (docent) at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. During World War II, being a Home Army soldier, she was arrested by the Nazis, sentenced to death and imprisoned in the Ravensbrück camp. After the war, she lived in Rome. She devoted herself to work for Polish culture and science. She was a co-founder of the Polish Historical Institute in Rome and the Lanckoronski Foundation from Brzezia. She received many Polish and foreign decorations and doctorate honoris causa of Jagiellonian and Wroclaw Universities. She is the author of many scientific articles, memoirs, editors and the book War Memories. She donated to the Royal Castle in Warsaw and to Wawel Castle an invaluable collection of works of art inherited from her father. She was an extraordinary person, an unattainable model of a noble patriot.

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