Paweł Czartoryski
Paweł Czartoryski | |
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Coat of arms | Czartoryski |
Born | (1924-05-21)21 May 1924 Kraków, Poland |
Died | 10 August 1999(1999-08-10) (aged 75) Warsaw, Poland |
Buried | Służew Old Cemetery |
Noble family | Czartoryski |
Consort | Veronica Poninska |
Father | Włodzimierz Alfons Czartoryski |
Mother | Countess Sophie Tyszkiewicz |
Prince Paweł Czartoryski (1924–1999) was a Polish historian.
He was a law scholar and a science historian. He has contributed considerably on the subject of Nicolaus Copernicus and has published several translations of his works.[1]
He was the Head of the Econometrics Department at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin until 1970. Later a residing professor in the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America amongst others.[2]
Czartoryski took part in the Polish Round Table talks, where he was responsible for education.[3]
Czartoryski was the founder of the Polish United World Colleges Committee and is now its patron. The society awards about 20 scholarships a year.[4]
He was married to Veronica Poninska and had three children: Witold Michał Czartoryski, Irena Czartoryska and Maria Czartoryska.
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