Kazimierz Michałowski

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Kazimierz Michałowski in the mid-1960s in front of a mural from Faras in the National Museum in Warsaw .

Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (born November 11, 1901 in Tarnopol , † January 1, 1981 in Warsaw ) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist .

biography

Michalowski studied Classical Archeology and Art History at the University of Lviv . He also studied at universities and institutes in Berlin , Paris , Heidelberg , Münster , Rome , Athens and Cairo . From 1933 he was professor of archeology of the Mediterranean region at the University of Warsaw , from 1945 to 1981 he was also the deputy director of the Warsaw National Museum .

Michalowski's interest in Egyptology began in 1937 when he participated in the Tell Edfu excavation for two years . It was a Polish-French collaboration that was organized by him. The results of this expedition were later published in three volumes. Some of the excavation pieces were brought to the National Museum in Warsaw.

He spent the Second World War in the Woldenberg prison camp . After the end of the Second World War, he played a decisive role in the rebuilding of academic life in Poland. He also built a community dedicated to studying Mediterranean cultures. In 1959 he founded the Polish Center for Mediterranean Archeology in Cairo, which was later named after him.

He later directed several excavations on Egyptian soil. In 1957 he dug in Tell Atrib, three years later in Alexandria and 1961 in Dabod, from 1961 to 1964 in Faras . Since 1960 he has been a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . He was an honorary doctor of several universities (Cambridge, Strasbourg, Uppsala).

Publications

  • Fouilles franco-polonaises . Tell Edfou 1938
  • Sztuka starożytna. 1955 (ancient art)
  • Canon w architekturze egipskiej. 1955 (The Canon in Egyptian Architecture)
  • Fouilles polonaises , kilka tomów (od 1960)
  • Faras I, Fouilles Polonaises 1961. Warsaw 1961
  • Faras II, Fouilles Polonaises 1961-1962. Warsaw 1965
  • Never tylko piramidy. Sztuka dawnego Egiptu. 1966 (Not Just Pyramids - The Art of Egypt)
  • Faras. Center artistique de la Nubie chretienne. 1966
  • with Georg Gerster : Faras. The cathedral from the desert sand. Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln 1967
  • with Andrzej Dziewanowski (photos): Palmyra . Publisher Anton Schroll, Vienna and Arkady, Warsaw 1968.
  • Art of Ancient Egypt. 1969
  • Arte y civilizacion de Egipto. 1969
  • Karnak. 1969
  • Luksor. 1971
  • Aleksandria. 1972
  • Piramidy i mastaby. 1972 (pyramids and scales)
  • Teby. 1974
  • Od Edfu do Faras. Polskie odkrycia archeologii śródziemnomorskiej. 1974 (From Edfu to Faras. Polish excavations of the archeology of the Mediterranean area)
  • Egyptian. 1978
  • Wybór prac Opera Minora. 1990 (selection of papers)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the SAW: Kazimierz Michałowski. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 16, 2016 .

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SURNAME Michałowski, Kazimierz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michałowski, Kazimierz Józef Marian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnopoly
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1981
Place of death Warsaw