Free Polish University
Former Warsaw university
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Free Polish University (Polish: Wolna Wszechnica Polska), founded in 1918 in Warsaw, was a private university with different departments: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities, political sciences and social pedagogy.
Active1918–1952
Rector
- Alfred Sokołowski (1916–1918)
- Ludwik Krzywicki (1918–1919)
Academic staff
70–80Students3000
Wolna Wszechnica Polska | |
Seat of the Free Polish University at 2a Opaczewska Street in Warsaw (1939) | |
| Active | 1918–1952 |
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Academic staff | 70–80 |
| Students | 3000 |
| Location | , |
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From 1929, its degrees were equivalent to those of university.
In the years 1919–1939 the institution employed 70–80 professors. In the academic year 1938/39 educated about 3000 students. The university conducted clandestine courses during the German occupation, but after the war, its activities were not resumed.[1]
The university was disbanded in 1952.
Notable alumni
- Janina Dziarnowska (1903–1992), writer and translator, publicist, and expert on Soviet literature.[2]
- Esther Ita Feldman (1909-1999), was a Polish-Brazilian Jewish editor, translator, and community activist best known for her role as a senior editor of the Rio de Janeiro–based weekly magazine Aonde Vamos?
