Polish Academy of Skills
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The Polish Academy of Skills (Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, PAU), to 1919 called the "Academy of Skills" (Akademia Umiejętności, AU), founded in 1872 in Kraków as the continuation of the Kraków Society of Learning (Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie, established 1816), was the most important Polish learned organization of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its main goals were to organize, conduct and support learning and to represent Polish people of learning around the world. Merged in 1951 with other institutions to form the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN), it was reactivated as a separate institution in 1989.
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Initially PAU had three divisions:
- I - Philological (Filologiczny)
- II - Historical-Philosophical (Historyczno-Filozoficzny)
- III - Mathematical-Natural (Matematyczno-Przyrodniczy)
- IV - Medical (Lekarski) - since 1930
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Modern PAU divisions:
- I - Philological (Filologiczny)
- II - Historical-Philosophical (Historyczno-Filozoficzny)
- III - Mathematical-Physical-Chemical (Matematyczno-Fizyczno-Chemiczny)
- IV - Natural (Przyrodniczy)
- V - Medical (Lekarski)
- VI - Artistic (Twórczości Artystycznej)
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Presidents of PAU
- J. Majer (1872–90);
- Stanisław Tarnowski (1890–1917);
- K. Morawski (1917–25);
- J.M. Rozwadowski (1925–29);
- K. Kostanecki (1929–34);
- S. Wróblewski (1934–38);
- S. Kutrzeba (1939–46);
- K. Nitsch (1946–57);
- A. Krzyżanowski (1957–58);
- Gerard Labuda (1989–94);
- K. Kowalski (from 1994).
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Secrataries-general of PAU
- J. Szujski (1872–83),
- Stanisław Tarnowski (1883–90),
- S. Smolka (1890–1903),
- B. Ulanowski (1903–19),
- K. Kostanecki (1919–21),
- S. Wróblewski (1921–26),
- S. Kutrzeba (1926–39),
- T. Kowalski (1939–48),
- J. Dąbrowski (1948–57),
- A. Vetulani (1957–58),
- J. Skąpski (1989–94),
- J. Wyrozumski (od 1994).
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Members
Till 1952 PAU had a total of 676 domestic and 264 international members.
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Famous members:
- Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882-1954), astronomer, mathematician and geodesist.
- Gerard Labuda (b. 1916), medieval historian.
- Kazimierz Piwarski (1903-1968), historian of Pomerania, Silesia, East Prussia.
- Zygmunt Wojciechowski (1900-1955), historian of state and law, founder of the Western Institute.
