Kazimierz Zakrzewski (November 4, 1900 in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 159 ...

– March 11, 1941 in

Palmiry Palmiry () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czosnów, within Nowy Dwór County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is located at the edge of the Kampinos Forest, approximately south-east of Czosnów, sout ...

) was a Polish historian and publicist, a professor of the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. Zakrzewski was a co-originator of the Polish

syndicalist Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the left-wing of the labor movement that seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of pro ...

movement, activist of the trade union Związek Związków Zawodowych, and researcher of

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history co ...

(mainly late-ancient) and the

Byzantine culture The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

. He wrote ''Historia Bizancjum'' ("History of the Byzantine Empire") and co-authored the Polish popular history encyclopedia ''Wielka historia powszechna''. During World War II, Zakrzewski was murdered by the Germans in a mass execution at Palmiry.

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* 1900 births 1941 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish publicists People killed by Nazi Germany Polish Byzantinists {{Poland-historian-stub Scholars of Byzantine history