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| Born | (1885-02-25)25 February 1885 |
| Died | 19 October 1969(1969-10-19) (aged 84) |
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Józef Kostrzewski (25 February 1885 – 19 October 1969) was a Polisharchaeologist.
Kostrzewski was born inWęglewo (now inPoznań County). He studied first inKraków, then from 1910 onwards withGustaf Kossinna atBerlin and graduated in 1914. Back in Poland, he was to turn Kossinna's settlement-archaeological method ("Siedlungsarchäologische Methode") against its creator and to try to prove aSlavonicautochthonism in Poland from at least theBronze Age (Lusatian culture) onwards.
Kostrzewski became professor of prehistory at the newly foundedUniversity of Poznań in 1919, and from 1934 conducted the excavation of theIron Age settlement ofBiskupin, which he continued after the war.
After 1918, Kostrzewski became involved in bitter polemics about the ethnic ascription of theLusatian andPomeranian cultures with the German archaeologistBolko von Richthofen.
During the German occupation of Poland duringWorld War II, Polish universities and museums were closed, the finds were often transported to Germany, and many scholars were arrested, tortured and detained, or murdered.[1]
Kostrzewski hid from theGestapo during the war, but returned to his Poznań chair in 1945. He died in Poznań in 1969, aged 84.[citation needed]
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