Kazimierz Zakrzewski (November 4, 1900 in

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

– March 11, 1941 in

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

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

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

. Zakrzewski was a co-originator of the Polish

syndicalist Syndicalism is a labour movement within society that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes and other forms of direct action, with the eventual goal of gainin ...

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

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, ...

(mainly late-ancient) and the

Byzantine culture The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

. 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 People killed by Nazi Germany Polish Byzantinists Scholars of Byzantine history {{Poland-historian-stub