Marian Zygmunt Jedlicki (born 30 April 1899 in

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, died 14 March 1954 in

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) was a

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and a professor at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

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and the

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. He is well known for his translation of the

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, an early 11th century document (Jedlicki's translation of the chronicle into Polish was published in 1953. It was later translated into English). Jedlicki finished the Sobieski Gymnasium in Kraków. After the

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he managed to leave Poland and wrote his works while abroad under the pseudonym "S.M. Marvey". After the war he was the

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of the Modern History Department and the Department of Law and Administration at the University of Kraków (Jagiellonian University). He was moved by the communist authorities to the University of Poznań, a less prestigious institution, in 1949, because he was perceived as harboring "anti-communist sympathies".

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