UL: Obituaries

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On Thursday, 11 December 2025, prof. dr hab. Jacek Semaniak, Rector of Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce during the terms 2012-2016 and 2016-2020, passed away. He was an outstanding individual and scholar, a long-serving rector, and a member of the Science Policy Committee at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the years 2020-2022. Since 2020, he had held the position of President of the Central Office of Measures (GUM).

With deep sorrow and regret, we announce the passing of prof. dr hab. Bernard Janusz Albin, former Dean and co-founder of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Emeritus Professor of the University of Wrocław.

We are deeply saddened to announce that on 20 August 2025, Senior Brigadier Andrzej Jaroszek, a long-time administrative employee of the Occupational Health and Safety and Fire Protection Department at the University of Wrocław, passed away.

On 7 June 2025, during a funeral ceremony at Osobowicki Cemetery, we bid farewell to dr hab. Agata Kowalska-Szubert, prof. UWr, our colleague and an outstanding Dutch studies scholar, a person deeply devoted to academic work and her students. Below, we commemorate her life and academic journey, now permanently recorded in the history of our Dutch studies community. She passed away unexpectedly on 27 May.

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of the late prof. dr hab Jerzy Jastrzębski, who died on 27 May 2025, born in 1945 in Częstochowa. He was a co-founder and long-standing member of the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication.

We deeply regret to inform you that on May 13th, 2025, the late prof. dr hab. Stanisław Staśko passed away at the age of 70.

With deep sorrow, we announce the death of prof. dr hab. Zygfryd Siwik, who passed away on 17 April 2025. He was born on 18 December 1942 in Klein Daberkow.

Prof. dr hab. Eugenia Fojcik-Mastalska, born on July 8, 1943, passed away on April 3, 2025.

Dr hab. Czesław Lewandowski był emerytowanym profesorem UWr z Instytutu Politologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego oraz nauczycielem akademickim wielu pokoleń politologów.