Prof. dr hab. Jacek Kolbuszewski passed away

It is with deep regret that we inform you that Prof. dr hab. Jacek Kolbuszewski, born on 10 May 1938 in Poznań, passed away on 10 September 2022.

A historian of Polish and West Slavic literatures, translator and publisher of Latvian literature, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Polish Studies of the University of Wrocław, for many years Head of the Department of the History of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Wrocław, educator of many generations of Polish Studies scholars.

In his rich and multidisciplinary scientific output, the Professor’s works on the literature of Romanticism and Young Poland come to the fore, as well as interdisciplinary research on literature and funerary culture, studies on the category of space and landscape in literature, and mountain issues. He was the author of many monographs, including: Esthetic Models of Slovak Romantic Breakthrough Lyric (1974), Tatry in Polish Literature 1805-1939 (1982), Mountains – Spaces and Landscapes. Studies in the history of literature and culture (2020), Poems from the cemetery. On contemporary epigraphy in verse (1985), What for me today, tomorrow for you – Polish gravestone poems (1996), Cemeteries (1996), Kresy (2005), Literature and the Tatras. Studies and sketches (2016).

Professor Jacek Kolbuszewski has promoted 32 doctors and 400 masters in Polish philology.  He was a member of the Committee on Literature of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the Committee on Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), an honorary member of the Wrocław High-Mountain Club, served as editor-in-chief of many publications of the Wrocław Scientific Society (“Litteraria”, “Annales Silesiae”), and initiated the publishing series “Mountains-Literature-Culture”. He received the Prize of the Minister of Science and Higher Education six times, was a laureate of the Prize of the City of Wrocław (1990), the Prize and Medal of Zygmunt Gloger (1997), the Prize of the Alliance of Publishers of Historical Books (1996) and the Literary Prize of “Wierchy” (2012), the Literary Prize of Zakopane (2017).

We bid farewell to an outstanding Scholar, a valued academic lecturer, Friend, Master, Teacher, Colleague.

To the Wife and Relatives of the Deceased, we express our deepest sympathy

Rector and Senate of the University of Wrocław

Dean and Council of the Faculty of Letters

Management, Council and Staff of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Wrocław

Information on the date and place of the funeral ceremony will be announced at a later date.