DOI issue:
Obituaries
DOI article:Krogulska, Maria; Filarska, Barbara [Honoree]: Barbara Filarska: 1922-2007
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42092#0015
OBITUARY
Barbara Filarska
1922-2007
Professor of the Catholic University in Lublin and the Academy of Catholic Theology (now the
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University) in Warsaw. Member of the Committee of Sciences on Ancient
Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the Board of the Patristic Section with the
Committee of the Episcopate for Catholic Science Affairs. Participant in Polish excavations in
Palmyra in Syria and Tell Atrib in Egypt.
I first met Barbara Filarska in 1948 while still a high school student. I knew she was a Classical
philologist and mother of a small daughter. I met her again when I enrolled to study archaeology at
the University of Warsaw. She was working then for the Ancient Art Department of the National
Museum in Warsaw and now had three adorable daughters.
Born on 22 June 1922, Barbara Filarska attended the A. Pilsudska high school in the Zoliborz
district in Warsaw and graduated in 1940 from secret classes organized by her school professors in
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Barbara Filarska
1922-2007
Professor of the Catholic University in Lublin and the Academy of Catholic Theology (now the
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University) in Warsaw. Member of the Committee of Sciences on Ancient
Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the Board of the Patristic Section with the
Committee of the Episcopate for Catholic Science Affairs. Participant in Polish excavations in
Palmyra in Syria and Tell Atrib in Egypt.
I first met Barbara Filarska in 1948 while still a high school student. I knew she was a Classical
philologist and mother of a small daughter. I met her again when I enrolled to study archaeology at
the University of Warsaw. She was working then for the Ancient Art Department of the National
Museum in Warsaw and now had three adorable daughters.
Born on 22 June 1922, Barbara Filarska attended the A. Pilsudska high school in the Zoliborz
district in Warsaw and graduated in 1940 from secret classes organized by her school professors in
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