Stanisław Lorentz
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Stanisław Lorentz (28 April 1899 – 15 March 1991) was a Polish scholar of
Sejm
- the Polish Parliament (1965–69), and an UNESCO expert for the protection of monuments and historic sites.
Life
Born in
National Museum in Warsaw
. With the title of "Polish head of the museum under the German commissioner", he remained engaged at the National Museum.
He was a high-ranking member of the
German occupation of Poland, tasked with preserving Polish cultural heritage. After the war in 1945, he resumed his post as the director of the National Museum in Warsaw. In 1982 he was dismissed as a director because of joining the "Solidarity" movement
. He became an honorary director from 1990 until his death in 1991.
In 1947 he became a professor at the
Polish Academy of Learning, and in 1952, the Polish Academy of Sciences
.
He was a member of several governmental departments and commissions related to art conservation and was also a deputy to Polish
Sejm (1965–1969). He was a UNESCO expert on Polish and international cultural heritage, highly active in the restoration of the Royal Castle, Warsaw and Old Town in Havana, Cuba
.
Lorentz conducted an intensive correspondence with Lithuanian art conservation specialist Vladas Drėma.[1] The letters were published in 1998.
References
- ^ ISBN 9986-830-96-6.)
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