Maria Janion
1926–2020 (age 94)
Biography
Maria Janion (24 December 1926 – 23 August 2020) was a Polish scholar, literary theorist and critic, as well as a feminist. She was a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialising in literary Romanticism.
Janion was also a member of the Polish Academy of Learning. She held an honorary degree from Gdańsk University.