UL: Obituaries

It is with deep sorrow that we announce that on 6 April 2026 prof. dr hab. Tomasz Kaczmarek, the director of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology in years 1975-1991 and head of the Department of Substantive Criminal Law in 1997-2006, passed away.

With deep sadness we inform you that prof. dr hab. Marian Ursel passed away on 6 April 2026. He was an outstanding scholar and an editor of Polish romantic literature, an excellent teacher and educator of many generations of Polish philologists (1950-2026).

Professor Marek Maciejewski passed away on 13 March at the age of 76. He worked at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, in the Department of Political and Legal Doctrines.

Z głębokim żalem zawiadamiamy, że w dniu 25 lutego 2026 r. zmarł prof. dr hab. Marek Mazurkiewicz, urodzony 20.06.1931 r. w Wilnie.

Nie żyje Wojciech Hann

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.