Karol Estreicher (4 March 1906 in

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– 29 April 1984 in Kraków) was a Polish historian of art, writer and bibliographer, recipient of the

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, son of Stanisław Estreicher. He was a professor at

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and served as the head of the university's museum. He was engaged in the restitution of Polish works of art looted during World War II. In 1944, after nearly three years of intensive research, Estreicher published Poland's Cultural Losses: An Index of Polish Cultural Losses During the German Occupation, 1939–1944, which provided the basis for detailed restitution efforts in Poland at the end of the war.

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1906 births 1984 deaths Academic staff of Jagiellonian University Polish art historians Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta 20th-century Polish historians Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland {{Poland-historian-stub