Stefan Maria Kuczyński


Stefan Maria Kuczyński, nom de plume Włodzimierz Bart, was a Polish historian and academic specializing in the medieval history of the Kingdom of Poland during the Piast dynasty and the Jagiellon dynasty, especially in the period of King Władysław II Jagiełło. After World War II he served as docent at the Uniwersytet Jagielloński, then associate professor of Uniwersytet Wrocławski, followed by professor of Uniwersytet Łódzki, and professor of Uniwersytet Śląski. Kuczyński also served as editor-in-chief of illustrated monthly Śląsk in 1946–1948, published in Jelenia Góra, and the scientific journal Nauka i Sztuka, one of the first of its kind in postwar Poland.
Kuczyński studied philology, law and history in the Second Polish Republic at the Uniwersytet Warszawski, and received a doctorate in 1932 for his work Rządy litewskie na Siewierszczyźnie w II połowie XIV wieku, under the direction of Oskar Halecki. He worked first as high-school teacher in Warsaw and later as lecturer at his own alma mater since 1937, with the title of docent at the Institute of Medieval History. During the occupation of Poland he took part in clandestine Tajne komplety.

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