Adam Fastnacht (27 July 1913, in

Sanok Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — , , ''Sanok'', , ''Sianok'' or ''Sianik'', , , ''Sūnik'' or ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of southeastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San ...

– 16 February 1987, in

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) doctor hab., historian, editor.Anna Fastnacht-Stupnicka. Obecność przeszłości (''O Adamie Fastnachcie''). Rocznik Sanocki, Sanok, 2006 He was a Polish

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, researcher of the history of the town and the district of Sanok Land. Fastnacht was born to a German family who settled in the east. He studied in Sanok, in

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at Lviv University under Franciszek Bujak and at the

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, where in 1946 he received his PhD. Fastnacht was a member of the

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. He was long-standing

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of the

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Bibliography

* ''Adam Fastnacht, Slownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziemi Sanockiej w Średniowieczu'' (Historic-Geographic Dictionary of the Sanok District in the Middle Ages), Kraków, (II edition 2002), . * ''Osadnictwo Ziemi Sanockiej w latach 1340-1650'', Wrocław 1962 * ''Zarys dziejów Sanoka''. W: ''Księga pamiątkowa Gimnazjum Męskiego w Sanoku 1888-1958'', Kraków 1958 * ''Dzieje Leska do 1772 roku'', Rzeszów 1988 * ''Sanok. Materiały do dziejów miasta do XVII wieku'', Opracował prof. Feliks Kiryk, Brzozów, 1990

References

20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 1913 births 1987 deaths Jagiellonian University alumni Polish people of German descent Historians of Poland People from Sanok {{Poland-historian-stub