Karolina Lanckorońska (1898-2002)

Abstract

The life of K. Lanckorońska (1898-2002) includes several important trends, such as:

information about the history of the family, starting from the 14^th century in Poland, and the genealogical line is closed with Lanckorońska;
information about her father Karol (1848-1933), a mercenary and expert of art, a scholar of international acclaim, an art collector (from the Middle Ages onwards up to the contemporary Polish artists of the beginning of the 20^th century), a collector of souvenirs of ancient Greeks and Romans, and the ancient art of the East (Japan, India);
information about the history of those collections until 1994 and how the collection of Italian painting of the 14^th-16^th centuries was given to Wawel; the painting works from the collection of King Stanisław August Poniatowski and furniture of the 18^th and the beginning of the 19^th centuries were given to the Royal Castle in Warszawa;
information about the memoir Wspomnienia wojenne [War Memoirs] in which Lanckorońska describes her activity during the German occupation;
information about the Lanckorońska of Brzezie Foundation, scholarships and financial gifts on behalf of the Polish Library in Paris and the publications initiated the Polish Historical Institute in Rome established by K. Lanckorońska;
information about the editorial series „Antemurale” (28 volumes), „Elementa ad Fontium Editiones” (76 volumes), and „Acts of Roman Nunciature” (volume I, 1990) established by Prof. K. Lanckorońska.