Stanisław Lorentz

Stanisław Lorentz ( born April 28, 1899 in Radom, † March 15, 1991 in Warsaw), code name " Bukowski ", was a Polish musicologist, museologist and art historian.

Life

Lorentz passed the Matura examination at Gimnazjum Górskiego in Warsaw and then studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. He graduated in 1924 with a doctorate, his thesis treated Ephraim Schröger. In 1929 he moved to the then Polish Wilno. He first worked as a school teacher, then as a tenured conservation expert and led from 1935 to the National Museum in Warsaw. During the German occupation he was a member of the Polish underground movement and strove to preserve Polish heritage through documentation of the stolen art treasures by the occupiers. After the war, he was re- museum director, from 1947 professor at the University of Warsaw, member of the Sejm ( 1965-1969 ), the Polish Academy of knowledge (from 1949) and the Polish Academy of Sciences ( from 1952) and numerous commissions. He unfolded Special activities as a UNESCO expert on Polish cultural heritage and as a propagator of the reconstruction of Warsaw's Royal Castle. Lorentz is buried in the Protestant cemetery Augsburg Confession.

Works (selection)

• The Renaissance in Poland, Warsaw, " Prasa ", 1955
• Museums and collections in Poland, Leipzig, E. A. Seemann Verlag 1974