Jadwiga Czachowska
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Jadwiga Czachowska | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 October 1922 |
| Died | 10 February 2013 (aged 90) |
| Citizenship | Polish |
| Occupations | Literary historian, bibliographer, editor |
Jadwiga Czachowska (30 October 1922 – 10 February 2013) was a literary historian, bibliographer and editor.[1][2][3][4]
Daughter of Antoni Nowak-Przygodzki and the physician Zofia Gumowska.[1] She attended the Queen Jadwiga Grammar and Secondary School No. XIII in Lviv.[1] She was a member of the Polish Scouting Association (ZHP).[1]
During the Nazi occupation she was in Lviv and was a liaison at the National Military Organization.[2] She was imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944.[2] In 1948 she graduated with a master's degree in Polish philology from the Jagiellonian University.[1] From 1949 she was a researcher at Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN).[2] She was the director of the Department of Contemporary Literature Documentation of the IBL PAN between 1966 and 1993.[1] From 1991 she was a professor.[2] From 1996 she was a member of Warsaw Scientific Society.[2] In 1986 she supervised doctoral dissertation of Ewa Głębicka.[5]
She wrote about Gabriela Zapolska.[6]
