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DOI article:Zawadzka, Anna: In memory of Jerzy Kolendo: (9 June 1933 - 28 February 2014)
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ANNA ZAWADZKA
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Anna Zawadzka
In Memory of Jerzy Kolendo
(9 June 1933 - 28 February 2014)
Professor Jerzy Kolendo died on 28 February 2014 in Warsaw. He was an emi-
nent scholar of world renown, versatile, broad-minded, with a remarkable passion
for research and a dedication to knowledge, as well as an outstanding professor
and mentor for generations of scholars. To all his friends, colleagues, and students,
his death is a very painful loss. We shall all miss him: both his knowledge and his
extraordinary kindness.
It is not easy to describe the whole extent of his academic interests and
achievements in just a few pages. He was a historian, archaeologist, epigraphist,
numismatist. In his research, he was primarily concerned with the history of
ancient Romę and the history of the territories of Poland in antiquity, the rela-
tions between the Mediterranean World and the Barbaricum, as well as the recep-
tion of antiquity and the development of antiquarian studies both in Poland and
abroad. His work was always marked by his pioneering approach and had the
noteworthy interdisciplinary character. For instance, he explored the economy of
ancient Romę through the perspective of social relations, developed the research
on the archaeological (and also numismatic) frnds whose existence was attested
only in the extant archival materiał (the so-called "library-based archaeology").
Throughout his life, he contributed to bridging the gap between archaeology and
history.
Jerzy Władysław Kolendo was bom on 9 June 1933 at Brest (present-day Be-
larus). In 1955, he completed his studies at the Faculty of History of the University
of Warsaw, where he also obtained his doctoral degree in 1960 on the basis of the
dissertation 760/077(77* w H/łyce /'yego ge77ezo (The Colonate in Roman
Africa and Its Origin). His doctoral thesis would be subsequently published in
Paris as Te co/o7?o7 e/7 H/7o<?(70 /e T/oMAEwgó^e (in 1976 and 1991).
In the years 1955-1971, he worked in the Institute of History of the Pol-
ish Academy of Sciences, where he received his post-doctoral (habilitation) de-
gree in 1968 for his dissertation entitled Po.s7^p 7*ec/7777cz77g o^o6/ew s7/y 7^060-
cze/' w 7*o/777c^w7e sy<37*cż)g77e/ 77*o//7 (Technological Progress and Labour Force in
Ancient Italian Agriculture") (Wrocław). An Italian translation of this disserta-
tion was published in 1980 (Z/og77co//M7Y7 T?e//7/'o/727 ^07770770. 7ec77/e/7e og7^o7i'e
e ^77^0g/^e^0 eC07707777C0 (/o//(7 /Ć77*<7ć7 re/7Z/66/7Cć7 <7/ /77*777C7/7Ć77'0, Roma 1980).
282
Anna Zawadzka
In Memory of Jerzy Kolendo
(9 June 1933 - 28 February 2014)
Professor Jerzy Kolendo died on 28 February 2014 in Warsaw. He was an emi-
nent scholar of world renown, versatile, broad-minded, with a remarkable passion
for research and a dedication to knowledge, as well as an outstanding professor
and mentor for generations of scholars. To all his friends, colleagues, and students,
his death is a very painful loss. We shall all miss him: both his knowledge and his
extraordinary kindness.
It is not easy to describe the whole extent of his academic interests and
achievements in just a few pages. He was a historian, archaeologist, epigraphist,
numismatist. In his research, he was primarily concerned with the history of
ancient Romę and the history of the territories of Poland in antiquity, the rela-
tions between the Mediterranean World and the Barbaricum, as well as the recep-
tion of antiquity and the development of antiquarian studies both in Poland and
abroad. His work was always marked by his pioneering approach and had the
noteworthy interdisciplinary character. For instance, he explored the economy of
ancient Romę through the perspective of social relations, developed the research
on the archaeological (and also numismatic) frnds whose existence was attested
only in the extant archival materiał (the so-called "library-based archaeology").
Throughout his life, he contributed to bridging the gap between archaeology and
history.
Jerzy Władysław Kolendo was bom on 9 June 1933 at Brest (present-day Be-
larus). In 1955, he completed his studies at the Faculty of History of the University
of Warsaw, where he also obtained his doctoral degree in 1960 on the basis of the
dissertation 760/077(77* w H/łyce /'yego ge77ezo (The Colonate in Roman
Africa and Its Origin). His doctoral thesis would be subsequently published in
Paris as Te co/o7?o7 e/7 H/7o<?(70 /e T/oMAEwgó^e (in 1976 and 1991).
In the years 1955-1971, he worked in the Institute of History of the Pol-
ish Academy of Sciences, where he received his post-doctoral (habilitation) de-
gree in 1968 for his dissertation entitled Po.s7^p 7*ec/7777cz77g o^o6/ew s7/y 7^060-
cze/' w 7*o/777c^w7e sy<37*cż)g77e/ 77*o//7 (Technological Progress and Labour Force in
Ancient Italian Agriculture") (Wrocław). An Italian translation of this disserta-
tion was published in 1980 (Z/og77co//M7Y7 T?e//7/'o/727 ^07770770. 7ec77/e/7e og7^o7i'e
e ^77^0g/^e^0 eC07707777C0 (/o//(7 /Ć77*<7ć7 re/7Z/66/7Cć7 <7/ /77*777C7/7Ć77'0, Roma 1980).