100 Years of Ancient History in the Jagiellonian University
100 Years of Ancient History in the Jagiellonian University

Summary/Abstract: In 2022, the Department of Ancient History of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków celebrates the centennial anniversary of its establishment. This joyous occasion inspires one to reminisce about its history. The Department, first established as the Chair of Ancient History on November 1, 1922, was initially headed by Professor Ludwik Piotrowicz. The creation of the Chair, the capstone to a lengthy and complex bureaucratic labor, began in the 1900s and came to fruition in 1922, mainly thanks to efforts of Piotrowicz’s mentors, Kazimierz Morawski (professor of classical philology) and Piotr Bieńkowski (professor of archaeology), who studied in Berlin under Theodor Mommsen. Having defended his doctoral dissertation, Piotrowicz acted on Morawski and Bieńkowski’s advice and went to study at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, where he attended Eduard Meyer’s seminars, studied papyrology and epigraphy under Paul Martin Meyer, and completed a habilitation thesis under Otto Hirschfeld’s guidance. Professor Piotrowicz went on to develop his papyrological expertise with Pierre Jouguet in Paris.

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