Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish librarian
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About Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński
- Stefan Vrtel-Wierczynski (1886 - 1963) was a Polish librarian and bibliographer, historian of Polish and Slavic literature, Professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Vrtel-Wierczynski attended gymnasium in Stryj before studying at Lwow University.
- From 1906 to 1908 he was a scholarship holder of Ossolineum in Lwów.
- He later lectured at Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów.
- From 1927 to 1937 and 1947 to 1950 he was director of the university library in Poznan.
- From 1937 to 1940 and 1945 to 1947 he was director of the National Library.
- In 1948 he established the Polish Literary Biography, created within the structures of the Institute for Literary Research.
- He also published monuments of mediaeval literature.
- He was creator and (from 1952 to 1962) director of the Department of West-Slavic Literature (later renamed Department of Slavic Literature). At the Rózany Potok, a house estate adjacent to Poznan university campus there is S.
- Vrtel-Wierczynski Street.
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