Józef Kostrzewski
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| Born | 25 February 1885 |
| Died | 19 October 1969 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Polish |
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| Fields | Archaeologist |
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Józef Kostrzewski (25 February 1885 - 19 October 1969) was a Polish archaeologist.
Kostrzewski was born in
Kostrzewski became professor of prehistory at the newly founded
After 1918, Kostrzewski became involved in bitter polemics about the ethnic ascription of the Lusatian and Pomeranian cultures with the German archaeologist Bolko von Richthofen.
During the German occupation of Poland during World War II, Polish universities and museums were closed, the finds were often transported to Germany, and many scholars were arrested, tortured and detained, or murdered.[1]
Kostrzewski hid from the Gestapo during the war, but returned to his Poznań chair in 1945. He died in Poznań in 1969, aged 84.[citation needed]
Publications
- Gród prasłowiański w Biskupine w powiecie żnińskim (Poznań 1938).
- Kultura prapolska (1947)
- with W. Chmielelewski and K. Jażdżewski, Pradzieje Polski (Wrocław 1965)
References
- ISBN 978-83-7629-067-6
Further reading
- J. Lech, Between captivity and freedom: Polish archaeology in the 20th century. Archaeologia Polona 35–36, 1997/98, 25–222, ISSN 0066-5924
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