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Aleksander Czołowski
Aleksander Czołowski (27 February 1865 in – 7 July 1944 in Lviv) was a Polish historian, antiquarian, archivist, director of the Historical Museum of the City of Lviv and the National Museum in Lviv. Biography He graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk, Stanisławów Gymnasium in 1884, after which he enrolled at the Faculty of Law at the University of Lviv. He soon moved to the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. In 1890, he graduated from the Philosophy Department of Lviv University with a doctorate in philosophy. He was a student of Prof. Ksawery Liske. In 1891, he took the position of archivist and later director of the archives and subordinate museums (including the city museum) in Lviv, holding this position until June 1939, when he retired. He was also an art collector and one of the initiators of the establishment of a Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery, picture gallery in Lviv. He was a member of the Sokół movement, Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
