Jadwiga Adamczyk

Jadwiga Teresa Adamczyk (born August 27, 1906 in Warsaw, died September 3, 1986 in Warsaw), Polish librarian, longtime manager of the Department of Old Prints of the Public Library of the Capital City of Warsaw. Curriculum vitae

She was the daughter of Władysław and Maria from Strzemnych, railway officials. In 1925 she graduated from Zofia Sierpińska Gymnasium in Warsaw and started her studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Warsaw; In 1930 she received a master's degree in philosophy in history under the direction of Oskar Halecki. She also passed an exam which allowed her to teach history in secondary schools. In December 1937 she defended her PhD dissertation of Europe and the Mongols in the thirteenth century, prepared under the direction of Stanisław Kętrzynski. Another scientific work, The Polish case in Russian Tsarist politics during the Great War, was not completed until the outbreak of World War II; During the war years, the material from this dissertation has been destroyed, a similar fate has come to the doctor's thesis, which in the result has never been published.

In August 1939, just one month before the outbreak of war, Jadwiga Adamczyk undertook full-time work as a clerk in the Ministry of the Interior. In the years of occupation, she was tutored and taught piano lessons. In November 1945 she became an employee of the Public Library of the capital city of Warsaw, where she was entrusted with the collection of old prints. In the first months of her work she dealt with organizing the collection, including the collection of books scattered throughout the war. In June 1946 she was leading the Department of Old Prints from Noakowskiego Street to Koszykowa Street. Having remained for some time the only member of the department and actually his organizer, it was only in 1951 that she received a nomination for the manager until she retired on 31 December 1970.

In November 1948 she held a professional course in the development of old prints, organized by the Jagiellonian Library; The lecturers of this course were such outstanding experts as Alodia Kawecka-Gryczowa, Alexander Birkenmayer, Jan Baumgart, Józef Korpała, Aleksander Semkowicz, Zofia Kozłowska-Budkowa, Adam Vetulani. Since 1956 Jadwiga Adamczyk has been a curator since 1966 (on the basis of scientific achievements) - diploma custodian.

For several years she worked with Aloda Kawecka-Gryczowa on the publication of a catalog of printed Polonics in the collection of the Public Library of the capital city of Warsaw; Particular attention was paid to the correction of composition during the final editorial work in 1957. She published an article on the collection of old prints of the Public Library in the collective work From the history of the book and the library in Warsaw (1961). She was also the author of the biography of Zygmunt Gloger in the Dictionary of Polish Books (1972). She participated in works on the central catalog of varsavians in the Public Library, and after retiring she prepared a catalog of 18th-century Polonics, but she did not finish this work.

During the quarter-century of managing the Department of Old Prints, besides gathering, arranging and compiling collections, Jadwiga Adamczyk's special concern has been their maintenance and security. On her initiative, despite the modest funds, the best Polish book conservators cooperated with the Public Library.

She did not have a family, living with her mother for many years. She was a lover of music, theater and visual arts, and she was fluent in several foreign languages. She was awarded The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland. She died after a long illness on 3 September 1986 and was buried at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. Bibliography

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