Tadeusz Bronisław Wałek-Czarnecki (1889–1949) was a Polish historian. Wałek-Czarnecki studied history and archaeology at the

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, as a pupil of Piotr Bieńkowski. In 1910 he went abroad and studied in

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under E. Meyet and A. Erman, and in

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under A. Moret. In the winter of 1913-1914 he took part in the Austrian excavations at

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conducted by Junker. At the International Congress of Population (

1937) he presented a paper ''La population de l'Egypte ancienne''. Professor of Ancient History at the

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, during the years 1939-1941 and 1945 he stayed at IFAO,

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, from 1949 he resided in

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. *''Historia Grecji'', 1934. *''Dzieje ekonomiczne świata starożytnego'', 1948.

External Links

Portfolio of Tadeusza Wałka-Czarneckiego
on the website of the Association of Historians of Antiquity
Works of Tadeusz Wałek-Czernecki
in the Polona library Jagiellonian University alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 1889 births 1949 deaths {{poland-historian-stub