Władysław Semkowicz

Władysław Semkowicz
Born(1878-05-08)8 May 1878
Died19 February 1949(1949-02-19) (aged 70)
EducationDoctor of Law (1902)
Occupationslawyer, historian, archivist and social activist
Known fordevelopment of the Polish archival field
Parents

Władysław Semkowicz (8 May 1878 – 19 February 1949) was a Polish lawyer, historian, archivist and social activist. His work has been an important contribution to the development of the Polish archival field.[1]

Władysław Semkowicz was born 8 May 1878 in Kraków, the oldest child of Aleksander Semkowicz and Marie Schier.[2] In 1902 he became a doctor of law.[2]

During World War I, at the beginning of 1915 in Vienna, he became chairman of the board of the Polish War Archive.[3] In 1917 he reviewed the drafts of a new law and archival regulations prepared by the Archival Commission of the Temporary Council of State. His position was later used during work on the rescript of the Regency Council on archives.[4] On 8 March 1925 he was elected president of the Polish Heraldry Society in Lviv.[5] In the years 1924–1933 he was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Auxiliary Sciences of History, which had three editions before the outbreak of World War II: 1924, 1929, 1933.

During the occupation he was initially imprisoned as a result of the Sonderaktion Krakau in Sachsenhausen. After being released from the camp, he worked at the Institute for German Work in the East, according to some historians on the orders of the Home Army.[6] The thesis of alleged voluntary collaboration with the Germans, put forward in the controversial doctoral dissertation of Anetta Rybicka Instytut Niemieckiej Pracy Wschodniej. Kraków 1940–1945,[7] was met with criticism from the Kraków academic community.[6][8][9]

Married twice: from 27 June 1903 to Lesława née Bursów (1890–1932), from 29 January 1936 to Jadwiga Cyga (1897–1983).

He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków (section Ł-north-left of Tarnawski).[10][11]

Orders and decorations

References

  1. ↑ Radziejewska, Anna (2022). "Wkład Władysława Semkowicza (1878-1949) w rozwój polskiej dziedziny archiwalnej". Facta Simonidis (in Polish). 15 (2): 85–103. doi:10.56583/fs.798. ISSN 1899-3109.
  2. 1 2 Bieńkowski, Wiesław (1995–1996). "Semkowicz Władysław". Polski słownik biograficzny (in Polish). Vol. 36. Polska Akademia Nauk.
  3. ↑ "Polskie Archiwum Wojenne". Nowości Ilustrowane (39): 6. 25 September 1915.
  4. ↑ A. Rybarski, Centralny zarząd archiwalny w odrodzonej Rzeczypospolitej polskiej, “Archeion”, Vol. I (1927), p. 5.
  5. ↑ Leszek Pudłowski (1993). "Polskie Towarzystwo Heraldyczne. Zarys dziejów 1906-1939". Rocznik Polskiego Towarzystwa Heraldycznego. I (XII): 161.
  6. 1 2 Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa (2004). Wyzwolić się z błędnego koła. Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit w świetle dokumentów Armii Krajowej i materiałów zachowanych w Polsce. Kraków: Arcana. ISBN 83-89243-91-1. OCLC 830629188.
  7. ↑ A. Rybicka, Instytut Niemieckiej Pracy Wschodniej. Kraków 1940–1945, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 83-7181-255-8.
  8. ↑ "Forum Akademickie" (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-04-01.
  9. ↑ "Domena www2.tygodnik.com.pl jest utrzymywana na serwerach nazwa.pl". www2.tygodnik.com.pl. Retrieved 2026-04-01.
  10. ↑ "Groby profesorów UJ na Cmentarzu Rakowickim". 20 October 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  11. ↑ Jan Wiktor Tkaczyński, ed. (2016). Pro Memoria II. Profesorowie Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego spoczywający na Cmentarzu Rakowickim i Salwatorskim 1803–2015. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. p. 221.
  12. ↑ M.P. of 1929 No. 274, item 630 “for merits in the field of science and social activity”.
  13. ↑ M.P. z 1936 r. Nr 263, poz. 464 “for outstanding merits in the field of science and education of youth in a patriotic spirit in the years 1905–1918”.
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