UL: Obituaries

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.

With deep sorrow, we inform you that on 24 May 2025, prof. dr hab. Anna Aleksiewicz, a prominent academic of the University of Wrocław, passed away.
Born on 17 July 1936, she was a renowned researcher of 19th-century book history, the author of numerous academic publications, and a respected university teacher for many generations of library scientists.

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.

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.

We are deeply saddened and regret to inform you that the late Barbara Klimczak passed away on 26 February 2025.

Dr hab. Tadeusz Radoń (1929–2025), associate professor, was one of the fifteen students of the founder of the Wrocław school of surface physics – prof. dr hab. Jan Niklibowiec. Together with professor Niklibowiec’s students – professor Ryszard Męclewski and professor Zbigniew Sidorski – he contributed to the creation of one of the world’s most important field emission centers.