Ksawery Liske Explained

Franciszek Ksawery Liske (18 October 1838 in Śląskowo – 27 February 1891 in Lwów) was a Polish historian, a founder of the Lwów's historical school (lwowska szkoła historyczna), a founder and first chairman of the Polish Historical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne), director of the Archiwum Krajowe Aktów Grodzkich i Ziemskich we Lwowie. In 1879-1880 he was Rector of the Lviv University.

He was buried in the Łyczakowski Cemetery.

His students were Oswald Balzer, Wiktor Czermak, Ludwik Finkel, Stanisław Lukas, Saturnin Kwiatkowski, Antoni Prochaska, Adam Szelągowski.

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