Maria Ludwika Bernhard

Maria Ludwika Bernhard
Born	Aug 6, 1908 Loedz, Poland
Died	1998
Education	French School at Athens Warsaw University
Known for	History of Ancient Greek Art
Scientific career
Fields	National Museum in Warsaw Jagiellonian University

Maria Ludwika Bernhard (August 6, 1908

Early life and education

Bernhard studied art history and classical archaeology at the

World War II and the Polish resistance

The outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 brought Bernhard's career to a sudden halt. During the German Occupation of Poland, Bernhard was living in Warsaw and was active in the Polish resistance movement in World War II. She was a liaison officer of the Home Army and later she managed the VK Communications Department of the Warsaw Area Command ZWZ-AK.^[4] She continued to work at the museum during the war, where she safeguarded the art collections. In June 1940, Bernhard was arrested and sent to Pawiak, a German Gestapo prison.^[4]

Career after World War II

After she was released from prison at the end of the war, Bernhard worked as a Professor of

. She was curator at the museum until 1962. In 1954, she was promoted to the chair of Classical Archaeology department at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She taught classes at the University until her retirement in 1978.^[2][3]

Bernhard participated in excavations at

Bernhard is primarily known for the Polish publication of four volumes of the History of Ancient Greek Art, and for seven volumes of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: a scholarly discussion of the art collections at the

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