Leon Koźmiński

Leon Koźmiński (born October 1, 1904 in Daszkowce in Vinnytsia Oblast , Ukraine , † 1993 ) was a Polish university professor.

Life

His parents were Bolesław and Maria Koźmiński. He spent his childhood on his parents' estate in Wyszczykusy near Zhytomyr and then lived from 1914 to 1920 in the Swiss boarding school, Collège Champittet , near Lausanne . He passed his Abitur in 1924 at the state humanistic grammar school in Tczew . From 1924 to 1927 Koźmiński studied at the Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa in Warsaw ; here he wrote his diploma thesis under the direction of Ludwik Krzywicki . In the following year he began at the Warsaw Szkoła Główna Handlowa with a doctoral degree, which he continued in 1928 and 1929 in Paris at the Sorbonne . At the age of 26, he completed his doctorate under Claude Mornet. The study in France was partly financed by a French and partly by a Polish scholarship fund.

In 1929 Koźmiński began to work as a lecturer at the Warsaw Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa . At the same time he worked for the book publishing and trading company Dom Książki Polskiej SA ; here he was appointed to the supervisory board after two years. Shortly after completing his habilitation , he began teaching at the Szkoła Główna Handlowa (SGH). During the Second World War he served in the Polish army and took part in the Warsaw Uprising as a first lieutenant in the Polish Home Army .

After the war he continued teaching at the SGH, now renamed Szkoła Główna Planowania i Statystyki . On November 19, 1960 he was appointed full professor here . Koźmiński has received several awards for his achievements in academic teaching; including the medal for the 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland (Polish: Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej ), the Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta .

Koźmiński was married to Janina Szałkowska since 1935. His son is Andrzej Koźmiński , also a university professor. The private Warsaw Business School Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego was named after him.

Web links

• Biography of the namesake on the website of the Koźmiński Academy (in Polish, accessed on March 22, 2013)
• Detailed biography on the SGH website (in Polish, accessed on March 22, 2013)