Stanisław Kętrzyński Explained

Stanisław Kętrzyński
Birth Date:10 September 1878
Birth Place:Lwów
Death Place:Warsaw
Alma Mater:University of Lwów
Nationality:Polish
Burial Place:Powązki Cemetery
Father:Wojciech Kętrzyński
Mother:Wincentyna de Rautenberg-Klińska

Stanisław Kętrzyński (pronounced as /pl/; 10 September 1878 in Lwów, Austro-Hungary  - 26 May 1950 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish historian, diplomat and freemason.

He was the son of Polish historian Wojciech Kętrzyński.

During the Second World War Stanisław Kętrzyński was a prisoner in the German Auschwitz concentration camp.

Among his students were Stanisław Arnold, Aleksander Gieysztor, Jadwiga Karwasińska and Adam Wolff.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Biogramy uczonych polskich, część I: Nauki społeczne, zeszyt 2: K-O, (red.) A. Śródka i P. Szczawiński, Wrocław 1984, p. 49-53.