Polish Biographical Dictionary

Polski Słownik Biograficzny (PSB ) ( The Polish biographical dictionary ) is a multi-volume standard biography lexicon, which contains biographies of affiliated Poland personalities defined by Popiel by the year 2000. Lexicon principles were from 1931 to 1934, the first volume appeared in 1935 and since then added more permanently, so that today there are 47 volumes with about 29,000 biographies includes (from Abakanowicz to Szeliga ). Until about 2030 it is planned to expand the project to about 62 volumes and complete.

The project to date have a total of approximately 8,000 interdisciplinary professionals worked. The PSB is jointly published by the Polska Akademia Nauk Polska Akademia and Umiejętności. The first chief editor of the work was Władysław Konopczynski, which was established in 1949 by the communists forced to resign, and the work on the lexicon itself was interrupted and resumed in 1958 with the main editor Kazimierz Lepszy at the top. He was followed by Emanuel Rostworowski (from 1964) and Henryk Markiewicz ( 1989 ), which mainly sought the damage inflicted on the work by the communist censorship to fix with additions and corrections. Since 2003 Andrzej Romanowski has held the position of principal editor.