Piotr Oczko

Piotr Oczko
Born1973 (1973)
Died (aged 53)
CitizenshipPolish
EducationJagiellonian University
OccupationsAcademic, teacher, writer, translator
EmployerJagiellonian University

Piotr Oczko (1973 – 15 July 2026) was a Polish scholar of Polish, English and Dutch studies, as well as a cultural studies scholar, art historian, translator and professor at the Jagiellonian University.

Life and work

The son of Barbara Oczkowa, Oczko was born in 1973.[1] He graduated in English and Polish philology from the Jagiellonian University, in 1997 and 2000 respectively.[1] In 1997 he received the translation award from the Flemish Ministry of Culture in Brussels, in 2000 a scholarship from the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, in 2006 a scholarship from the Adam Krzyżanowski Fund, and in 2010 and 2014 the Rector's Prize of the Jagiellonian University.[1]

Oczko obtained doctorate in 2002 (supervised by Andrzej Stanisław Borowski)[2] and habilitation in 2014.[1][3] In 2022 he obtained the title of professor of art sciences.[3]

His research interests included the literature and culture of Dutch-speaking countries, early Polish, English and German literature, medieval drama, New historicism, issues of evil in culture, national identities and stereotypes, LGBT studies, and art history, including seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting, emblematics, artistic crafts of the 17th-19th centuries, the history of European ceramics – especially Dutch tiles and delftware.[1]

He published in Znak.[4] He was a member of the CODART, international network for curators of art from the Low Countries.[5] He consulted on the conservation-led restoration of the tiles in the Balthasar Fontana Hall at the Pod Gruszką House.[6]

He described himself as “a collector of old junk, a rainbow feminist and vegetarian, with a heart firmly on the left”.[7] Ryszard Nycz described him as “polymath in the humanities”, “versatile, knowledgeable scholar”, “refusing to be confined within disciplinary cages”.[8]

Oczko died on 15 July 2026, at the age of 53.[9]

Books

  • Mit Lucyfera. Literackie dzieje Upadłego Anioła od starożytności po wiek XVII. Kraków. 2005.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • W najdroższej Holandyjej… Szkice o siedemnastowiecznym dramacie i kulturze niderlandzkiej. Kraków. 2009.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Życie i śmierć doktora Fausta, złego czarnoksiężnika, w literaturze angielskiej od wieku XVI po romantyzm. Kraków. 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Homoseksualność staropolska. Tomasz Nastulczyk (co-author). Kraków. 2012.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Miotła i krzyż. Kultura sprzątania w dawnej Holandii, albo historia pewnej obsesji. Kraków. 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Gabinet Farfurowy w Pałacu w Wilanowie. Studium historyczno-ikonograficzne. Jan Pluis (co-author). Warszawa. 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Holenderskie flizy na dawnych ziemiach polskich i ościennych. Vol. I: Umywalnia na Zamku Wysokim w Malborku. Jej historia i wystrój. Jan Pluis (co-author). Malbork. 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Holenderskie flizy na dawnych ziemiach polskich i ościennych. Vol. II: Mody i wnętrza. Malbork. 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Holandia. Książka do pisania. Kraków-Budapeszt-Syrakuzy. 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Bezem en kruis. De Hollandse schoonmaakcultuur of de geschiedenis van een obsessie. Leiden. 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Pocztówka z Mokum. 21 opowieści o Holandii. Wydawnictwo Znak. 2021. ISBN 978-83-240-4421-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Suknia i sztalugi. Historie dawnych malarek. Wydawnictwo Znak. 2024.

Editions

  • Słownik Sarmatyzmu. Idee, pojęcia, symbole. Andrzej Borowski (co-editor). Kraków. 2001.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  • CAMPania – zjawisko campu we współczesnej kulturze. Warszawa. 2008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Jakubowski, August Antoni (2013). Wspomnienia polskiego wygnańca/The Remembrances of a Polish Exile. Jarosław Ławski (co-editor). Białystok.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Widzę rzeki szerokie… Z dziejów literatury niderlandzkiej XIX i XX wieku. Jerzy Koch (co-editor). Poznań. 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

Translations into Polish

Source.[1]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Piotr Oczko". cash.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Czyż był ktoś kiedyś tak jak ja nieszczęsny? 'Lucyfer' Joosta van den Vondel na tle historyczno-porównawczym". ludzie.nauka.gov.pl. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Prof. dr hab. Piotr Oczko". ludzie.nauka.gov.pl. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Piotr Oczko". miesiecznik.znak.com.pl. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "Nie żyje prof. Piotr Oczko". rmf24.pl. 16 July 2026. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  6. ↑ Paluch, Janusz M. "Wspomnienie. Prof. Piotr Oczko (1973-2026)". krakowiswiat.pl. Archived from the original on 20 July 2026. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  7. 1 2 Nowicka, Justyna (16 July 2026). "Zmarł prof. Piotr Oczko. Uniwersytet Jagielloński stracił wybitnego humanistę". radiokrakow.pl. Archived from the original on 16 July 2026. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  8. 1 2 Bielecka, Alicja (23 March 2026). "Profesor Piotr Oczko laureatem Nagrody im. Kazimierza Wyki". uj.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 17 April 2026. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
  9. ↑ Haładyj, Mirosław (16 July 2026). "Zmarł prof. Piotr Oczko. Uniwersytet Jagielloński żegna wybitnego naukowca". onet.pl. Archived from the original on 16 July 2026. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  10. ↑ "Piotr Oczko Pocztówka z Mokum. 21 opowieści o Holandii – Krakowska Książka Miesiąca". Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  11. ↑ Wspaniały, Łukasz (3 December 2024). "Prof. Piotr Oczko ponownie z tytułem Krakowskiej Książki Miesiąca". uj.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 16 July 2026. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
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