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| Born | Roman Grodecki (1889-04-21)April 21, 1889 |
| Died | April 17, 1964(1964-04-17) (aged 74) |
| Citizenship | Polish |
| Occupation | historian |
Roman Grodecki (21 April 1889, inRzeszów – 17 April 1964, inKraków),Poraj coat of arms, was a Polisheconomic historian, a professor at theJagiellonian University in Kraków, and a member of thePolish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Grodecki's scientific research centered onmedieval Poland, particularly the history of Polishcoinage,monetary history andmonetary policy under thePiast dynasty. Although he was not anumismatic himself, Grodecki was widely read by coin collectors of his day, and he engaged in academic discussions and polemics with the noted Polish numismaticMarian Gumowski. In addition to economic history, Grodecki published works on the general history of medieval Poland, focusing on Polish diplomacy of the period, the history ofSilesia and the life of DukeZbigniew, the older brother ofBolesław III Wrymouth.
His students includedJerzy Wyrozumski.[1]
Grodecki was born in Rzeszów to Jan Grodecki, a tax official, and Karolina Gorylska. He spent his childhood inGłogów Małopolski and attended school inKolomyia andBochnia. After completing agymnasium he enrolled at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, in 1907. He published his first,Książęca włość trzebnicka na tle organizacji majątków książęcych w Polsce w XII wieku, work in 1911, while still a student. This thesis became the basis for his doctorate, which he received a year later. Between 1914 and 1917 he served in thePolish Legions. he finished his studies afterWorld War I, receiving hishabilitation in 1920.
In 1926 he became a part-time member of thePolish Academy of Learning.World War II and theNazi invasion of Poland interrupted the existence of the organization and as a consequence Grodecki did not become a full member of the academy until 1946.
At the outbreak of World War II, Grodecki was already fifty years old but nonetheless an officer of the Polish army reserves. During the mobilization of the first days of the war he left Kraków in order to join his unit. As a result he escaped the fate of many of his academic colleagues from the Jagiellonian University, who were arrested by the Germans during theSonderaktion Krakau, and most of whom later perished inNazi concentration camps.
He spent most of the German occupation inLwow. There he taught at theUnderground University (higher education for Poles was banned by the Germans).
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