Stefan Maria Kuczyński, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stefan Maria Kuczyński

Polish historian

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1904

Place of Birth: Boguslav, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1985

Profession: historian, medievalist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Stefan Maria Kuczynski, nom de plume Wlodzimierz Bart (21 September 1904, Boguslaw, Wolyn – 30 March 1985, Katowice), was a Polish historian and academic specializing in the medieval history of the Kingdom of Poland during the Piast dynasty and the Jagiellon dynasty, especially in the period of King Wladyslaw II Jagiello.
After World War II he served as docent at the Uniwersytet Jagiellonski (1945), then associate professor of Uniwersytet Wroclawski (1946), followed by professor of Uniwersytet Lódzki (1954–1969), and professor of Uniwersytet Slaski (1969–1982).
Kuczynski also served as editor-in-chief of illustrated monthly Slask in 1946–1948, published in Jelenia Góra, and the scientific journal Nauka i Sztuka, one of the first of its kind in postwar Poland. Kuczynski studied philology, law and history in the Second Polish Republic at the Uniwersytet Warszawski, and received a doctorate in 1932 for his work Rzady litewskie na Siewierszczyznie w II polowie XIV wieku, under the direction of Oskar Halecki.
He worked first as high-school teacher in Warsaw and later as lecturer at his own alma mater since 1937 (until the invasion of Poland), with the title of docent at the Institute of Medieval History.
During the occupation of Poland he took part in clandestine Tajne komplety.