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DOI Artikel:Miziołek, Jerzy; Martyn, Peter: Robert Anderson, Awarded the Institute of Art Medal
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JERZY MIZIOŁEK
University offflarsaw, Institute of Archeology
PETER MARTYN
Warsaw, Institute of Art, PAN
Robert Anderson, Awarded the Institute of Art
Medal
1. Prof. Robert Anderson presented with
the Institute of Art Medal
1. Prof. Robert Anderson z Medalem
Instytutu PAN
On 4th October 2000 an event of consider-
able importance to Polish studies in humanit
ies was held in the Institute of Art (IS PAN):
the awarding of dr. Robert Anderson of London,
founder and chairman of ‘The Robert Anderson
Research Charitable Trust’, of a medal specially
minted to mark the Institute of Art’s twenty-fifth
anniversary, celebrated in 1974. The Institute of Art
Medal {Medal Instytutu Sztuki) is awarded persons
of merit for services rendercd to the Institute, as well
as to those who have offered thcir worthy support to
the research conducted under its aegis. Thanks to ‘The
Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust’, sińce
the end of the 1980s almost twenty academics bascd
in the Institute have been given the opportunity to
conduct their research in London, supported by grants
offered by the said Trust.
Apart from receiving his award and the forma!
honours of an eminent guest to accompany the actual
ceremony, during his three-day visit to Warsaw dr.
Anderson also delivered a lecture in the Institute of
Art and visited a number of places in the vicinity,
including Łowicz, Nieborów and Arkadia.
Robert Anderson, whose father owned a prosper-
ing tea plantation in Assam, was born in 1927 in India.
Following a childhood spent in the Sub-continent,
he was sent to the homeland of his parents who,
apart from owning the planatation also possessed
two houses in London. He studied Egyptology at
Cambridge University and Musicology at University
College in London, and it was these two disciplines
which were to become the leading passions of his
whole life. Having completed his postgraduate
studies, dr Anderson , as has often been the case with
British academics, became an independent and
largely unaffiliated scholar, maintaining contacts with
JERZY MIZIOŁEK
University offflarsaw, Institute of Archeology
PETER MARTYN
Warsaw, Institute of Art, PAN
Robert Anderson, Awarded the Institute of Art
Medal
1. Prof. Robert Anderson presented with
the Institute of Art Medal
1. Prof. Robert Anderson z Medalem
Instytutu PAN
On 4th October 2000 an event of consider-
able importance to Polish studies in humanit
ies was held in the Institute of Art (IS PAN):
the awarding of dr. Robert Anderson of London,
founder and chairman of ‘The Robert Anderson
Research Charitable Trust’, of a medal specially
minted to mark the Institute of Art’s twenty-fifth
anniversary, celebrated in 1974. The Institute of Art
Medal {Medal Instytutu Sztuki) is awarded persons
of merit for services rendercd to the Institute, as well
as to those who have offered thcir worthy support to
the research conducted under its aegis. Thanks to ‘The
Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust’, sińce
the end of the 1980s almost twenty academics bascd
in the Institute have been given the opportunity to
conduct their research in London, supported by grants
offered by the said Trust.
Apart from receiving his award and the forma!
honours of an eminent guest to accompany the actual
ceremony, during his three-day visit to Warsaw dr.
Anderson also delivered a lecture in the Institute of
Art and visited a number of places in the vicinity,
including Łowicz, Nieborów and Arkadia.
Robert Anderson, whose father owned a prosper-
ing tea plantation in Assam, was born in 1927 in India.
Following a childhood spent in the Sub-continent,
he was sent to the homeland of his parents who,
apart from owning the planatation also possessed
two houses in London. He studied Egyptology at
Cambridge University and Musicology at University
College in London, and it was these two disciplines
which were to become the leading passions of his
whole life. Having completed his postgraduate
studies, dr Anderson , as has often been the case with
British academics, became an independent and
largely unaffiliated scholar, maintaining contacts with