Paweł Czartoryski | |
Coa: | Czartoryski |
More: | no |
Spouse: | Veronica Poninska |
Spouse-Type: | Consort |
Noble Family: | Czartoryski |
Father: | Włodzimierz Alfons Czartoryski |
Mother: | Countess Sophie Tyszkiewicz |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1924 |
Birth Place: | Kraków, Poland |
Death Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
Burial Place: | Służew Old Cemetery |
Prince Paweł Czartoryski (1924–1999) was a Polish historian.
He was a law scholar and a science historian. He has contributed considerably on the subject of Nicolaus Copernicus and has published several translations of his works.[1]
He was the Head of the Econometrics Department at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin until 1970. Later a residing professor in the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America amongst others.[2]
Czartoryski took part in the Polish Round Table talks, where he was responsible for education.[3]
Czartoryski was the founder of the Polish United World Colleges Committee and is now its patron. The society awards about 20 scholarships a year.[4]
He was married to Veronica Poninska and had three children: Witold Michał Czartoryski, Irena Czartoryska and Maria Czartoryska.