Seweryn Wysłouch (March 19, 1900 in Pirkowicze near

Drohiczyn Drohiczyn () ( lt, Drohičinas/Drogičinas, be, Дарагічын, ua, Дорогочин, Дорогичин, ''Dorohochyn'', ''Dorohychyn'') is a town in Siemiatycze County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland. The town has a population of 2,11 ...

– February 28, 1968 in

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) was a legal historian and vice-rector of Wrocław University.

Biography

Seweryn was born in Pirkowicze near

(Polesie, Poland), the

Wysłouch Wysłouch (Wisłouch, Visłavuch and others) is the name of a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian Aristocracy (class), aristocratic family. It traces its lineage back to 1385 when, along with other major Lithuanian noble clans, its ...

family manor. In 1927 he graduated from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the

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and began to work there as an academic. His career was interrupted by the outbreak of the

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, but he continued it from 1945 at the

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as a professor. During the years of 1947 to 1952 he was the vice-rector (

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) of the university and from 1956 to 1958 he headed its School of Law Seweryn was equally involved in numerous initiatives outside of the university. During the inter-war period he was a member of the Senior Ramblers Club (Klub Włóczęgów Seniorów), a small, influential academic society linked to Marshal

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...

and his government.Kakareko, "Dziedzictwo Jagiellońskie w koncepcji środowiska Klubu Włóczęgów Seniorów w Wilnie w latach trzydziestych XX w." In 1948 he took part in the organisation of the Regained Territories Exhibition and from 1949 to 1953 he presided over the Wrocław branch of the

Western Institute The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: ''Instytut Zachodni'', German ''West-Institut'', French: ''L'Institut Occidental'') is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Poland ...

, a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland. Wysłouch co-founded the Silesian Institute in Opole and was its president from 1957 to 1960.

Selected works

* "Posługi komunikacyjne w miastach W. Ks. Litewskiego na prawie magdeburskiem do połowy xvi w.". Vilnius, Nakł. Instytutu Naukowo-Badawczego Europy Wschodniej, 1937. * "Studia nad koncentracją w rolnictwie śląskim w latach 1850-1914 : Struktura agrarna i jej zmiany". Wrocław, Ossolineum. * ""Powiat" w statucie litewskim 1529 r. oraz w spisie wojska litewskiego 1528 r.", Vilnius, 1931. * "Rola Komunistycznej Partii Zachodniej Białorusi w ruchu narodowym Białorusinów w Polsce". Vilnius, 1933.

References

Bibliography

* Karol Jonca, ''Seweryn Wysłouch'', w: ''Uczeni wrocławscy (1945-1979)'' (pod redakcją Jana Trzynadlowskiego),

Ossolineum Ossoliński National Institute ( pl, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now L ...

, Wrocław 1980 * ''Słownik historyków polskich'' (pod redakcją Marii Prosińskiej-Jackl),

Wiedza Powszechna Wiedza Powszechna (literally "Common Knowledge") is a publishing house in Poland. It originated in 1946 in Post World War II Poland as a subdivision of the Czytelnik publishing house, initiated by Stanisław Tazbir. In 1952, with the major rearra ...

, Warszawa 1994 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wyslouch, Seweryn 1900 births 1968 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Lawyers from Wrocław Seweryn Nobility from Wrocław Vilnius University alumni 20th-century Polish lawyers