Jerzy Wyrozumski
1930–2018 (age 88)
Biography
Jerzy Lesław Wyrozumski (7 March 1930 – 2 November 2018) was a historian, medievalist, professor at the Jagiellonian University, in the years 1981–1986 dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the Jagiellonian University, in the years 1987–1990 Vice-Rector of the Jagiellonian University, organizer, member and, in the years 1994–2015, secretary general of the revived Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, between 1980 and 2015 president of the Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa.
He graduated in history from the Jagiellonian University in 1955. In 1963 he obtained doctorate upon thesis Tkactwo małopolskie w wiekach średnich (Weaving in Lesser Poland in the Middle Ages) supervised by Roman Grodecki.
His doctoral students included Krzysztof Ożóg (1987), Krzysztof Stopka (1992), Józef Piotrowicz (1993), Lidia Korczak (1995), Grażyna Lichończak-Nurek (1995), Stanisław A. Sroka (1995), Czesław Brodzicki (1997), Krzysztof Prokop (1998), Marek Daniel Kowalski (1999), Wojciech Drelicharz (2001) and Andrzej Marzec (2003).
Krzysztof Ożóg wrote that Jerzy Wyrozumski "was a man of great wisdom, kindness and modesty, with a deep love for truth and science."