Kazimierz Michałowski

Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski ( born November 11, 1901 in Tarnopol, † January 1, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist.

Biography

Michalowski studied Classical Archaeology and Art History at the University of Lemberg. He also studied at universities and institutes in Berlin, Paris, Heidelberg, Münster, Rome, Athens and Cairo. Since 1933 he was Professor of Archaeology of the Mediterranean at the University of Warsaw, from 1945 to 1981 he was also deputy head of the Warsaw National Museum.

Michalowskis interest in Egyptology began in 1937, when he participated for two years at the excavation of Tell Edfu. It was a Polish- German cooperation, which was organized by him. The results of this expedition were later published in three volumes. Some of the archaeological finds were brought to the National Museum in Warsaw.

He spent the Second World War in a POW camp Woldenberg. After the end of the Second World War, he played a key role in the reconstruction of academic life in Poland. He also managed the construction of a community that the exploration of Mediterranean cultures devoted himself. In 1959 he founded in Cairo, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, which was later named after him.

Later, he led several excavations on Egyptian soil. In 1957, he dug at Tell Atrib, three years later in 1961 in Alexandria and Dabod, 1961-1964 in Faras.

Publications

• Fouilles franco- Polonaises. Tell Edfu 1938
• Sztuka starożytna. 1955 ( Ancient Art )
• Canon w architekturze egipskiej. 1955 ( The canon in Egyptian architecture)
• Fouilles Polonaises, kilka tomów ( od 1960)
• Faras I Fouilles Polonaises 1961. Warsaw 1961
• Faras II, Fouilles Polonaises 1961-1962. Warsaw 1965
• Never tylko piramidy. Sztuka dawnego Egiptu. 1966 ( Not only Pyramids - The art of Egypt )
• Faras. Centre artistique de la Nubie chretienne. 1966
• With Georg Gerster: Faras. The cathedral from the desert sand. Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln 1967
• With Andrzej Dziewanowski ( photos): Palmyra. Anton Schroll Verlag, Vienna and Arkady, Warsaw 1968.
• Art of Ancient Egypt. 1969 German edition Egyptian Art, Ars Antiqua - Great epochs of world art, Herder Verlag 1976