DOI Artikel:
Lipińska, Jadwiga; Ruszczyc, Barbara [Gefeierte Pers.]: Barbara Ruszczyc: 1928-2001
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41369#0014
OBITUARY
Concurrently with her museum work, she filled in for Professor Kazimierz Michalowski as lec-
turer on ancient art at Warsaw University. Later (1973-1993) she lectured on the art and archae-
ology of the Ancient Near East at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. She published
a number of scholarly treatises on objects from museum collections, as well as on the results of archae-
ological research. From 1937 she started gaining fieldwork experience with Prof. Michalowski at
excavations in Egypt and Sudan and was soon entrusted with the exploration of Tell Atrib, an
important site in the Nile Delta (1969-1984). Tell Atrib remained a focal point of her archaeo-
logical career. Having completed the exploration of the Pharaonic kom, she went on to work in asso-
ciation with the Coptic Church, searching for the vestiges of the oldest church known to have existed
on the site. She remained a valued team member even after she withdrew from directing the Polish
research at Tell Atrib. She also worked in Alexandria, as well as at Far as, where she had a hand
in the discovery of the Early Christian cathedral with its world-famous murals.
Her enthusiasm, sense of duty and conscientiousness were appreciated by Professor Michalowski,
as well as by her colleagues and associates. Even after retirement in 1990, she continued to work in
the Museum's stores of ancient art as a volunteer, arranging material that there had never been
enough time to study comprehensively before.
Throughout her professional life Barbara Ruszczyc was deeply involved in all kinds of volunteer
services. For close to fifty years, starting in 1932, she served as librarian at the Jesuit College in
Warsaw. In the last years, she worked with the Dominican Order of the Cracow Province, carrying
books to the library of a local parish in the Ukrainian town of Chortkhov and helping to catalogue
them there. Her visits to Ukraine were also devoted to recording Polish heritage at the ruined ceme-
teries in Czortkow, Jagielnica and Jablonowo. She was a member and associate of the Society for
Promoting the Cult of St. Andrew Bobola, taking part in trips to places connected with the life and
death of this saint. She was also associated with the Pontifical Institute of Ecclesiastical Studies.
In appreciation of the results of her museum work, she was awarded in 1987 the Knight's Cross of
the Order of Polonia Restituta. She was a member of the Association of Art Historians and the
International Association of Egyptologists.
Dr. Barbara Ruszczyc died in Warsaw on September 11, 2001.
The archaeological community has lost a person of great goodness and honesty. At the cemetery,
where she was laid to rest in the family tomb next to her siblings, she was bid farewell by numerous
colleagues and associates.
Jadwiga Lip ins ka
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Concurrently with her museum work, she filled in for Professor Kazimierz Michalowski as lec-
turer on ancient art at Warsaw University. Later (1973-1993) she lectured on the art and archae-
ology of the Ancient Near East at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. She published
a number of scholarly treatises on objects from museum collections, as well as on the results of archae-
ological research. From 1937 she started gaining fieldwork experience with Prof. Michalowski at
excavations in Egypt and Sudan and was soon entrusted with the exploration of Tell Atrib, an
important site in the Nile Delta (1969-1984). Tell Atrib remained a focal point of her archaeo-
logical career. Having completed the exploration of the Pharaonic kom, she went on to work in asso-
ciation with the Coptic Church, searching for the vestiges of the oldest church known to have existed
on the site. She remained a valued team member even after she withdrew from directing the Polish
research at Tell Atrib. She also worked in Alexandria, as well as at Far as, where she had a hand
in the discovery of the Early Christian cathedral with its world-famous murals.
Her enthusiasm, sense of duty and conscientiousness were appreciated by Professor Michalowski,
as well as by her colleagues and associates. Even after retirement in 1990, she continued to work in
the Museum's stores of ancient art as a volunteer, arranging material that there had never been
enough time to study comprehensively before.
Throughout her professional life Barbara Ruszczyc was deeply involved in all kinds of volunteer
services. For close to fifty years, starting in 1932, she served as librarian at the Jesuit College in
Warsaw. In the last years, she worked with the Dominican Order of the Cracow Province, carrying
books to the library of a local parish in the Ukrainian town of Chortkhov and helping to catalogue
them there. Her visits to Ukraine were also devoted to recording Polish heritage at the ruined ceme-
teries in Czortkow, Jagielnica and Jablonowo. She was a member and associate of the Society for
Promoting the Cult of St. Andrew Bobola, taking part in trips to places connected with the life and
death of this saint. She was also associated with the Pontifical Institute of Ecclesiastical Studies.
In appreciation of the results of her museum work, she was awarded in 1987 the Knight's Cross of
the Order of Polonia Restituta. She was a member of the Association of Art Historians and the
International Association of Egyptologists.
Dr. Barbara Ruszczyc died in Warsaw on September 11, 2001.
The archaeological community has lost a person of great goodness and honesty. At the cemetery,
where she was laid to rest in the family tomb next to her siblings, she was bid farewell by numerous
colleagues and associates.
Jadwiga Lip ins ka
12