Józef Chełkowski
1868–1954 (age 86)
Biography
Józef Chełkowski was born in 1868 and lived through one of the most transformative periods in Polish history. His long life witnessed the dramatic changes of the late 19th and mid-20th centuries in Poland and Central Europe.
Chełkowski's life and legacy are preserved at Salwator Cemetery, a historic burial ground in Kraków that holds the remains of many notable figures from Polish cultural and social history. His death in 1954 marked the end of a life that spanned nearly nine decades of Polish experience.