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DOI Artikel:Dobrowolski, Witold; Mikocki, Tomasz [Gefeierte Pers.]: Tomasz Mikocki: 1954-2007
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OBITUARY
Tomasz Mikocki
1954-2007
It has been a year and a half since Professor Tomasz Mikocki's premature death. He was an archae-
ologist and art historian, one of the most outstanding and most productive scholars of his generation.
These eighteen months have shown how grievously he will be missed by his friends and colleagues,
associates and students, the institutions we represent and the two disciplines, Classical archaeology
and art history, which he united in his scholarly praxis into a single field of research defined by the
forms and circumstances of the presence of Classical Antiquity in Polish culture. We would have con-
tinued to benefit, as ever, from his inherent energy, enterprising nature and visionary approach, espe-
cially in today's circumstances, when we are faced daily with the dramatic metamorphoses of our cul-
ture, the ever-present kitsch and lowered standards, deceptively justified by a crisis of traditional
humanistic education, the superficiality of fads and admiration for things that depreciate the set of
values of a higher order. The loss is compounded by the fact that Tomasz Mikocki was a scholar with
a modern set of mind, present in international scholarly circles, an innovative boss with extensive
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Tomasz Mikocki
1954-2007
It has been a year and a half since Professor Tomasz Mikocki's premature death. He was an archae-
ologist and art historian, one of the most outstanding and most productive scholars of his generation.
These eighteen months have shown how grievously he will be missed by his friends and colleagues,
associates and students, the institutions we represent and the two disciplines, Classical archaeology
and art history, which he united in his scholarly praxis into a single field of research defined by the
forms and circumstances of the presence of Classical Antiquity in Polish culture. We would have con-
tinued to benefit, as ever, from his inherent energy, enterprising nature and visionary approach, espe-
cially in today's circumstances, when we are faced daily with the dramatic metamorphoses of our cul-
ture, the ever-present kitsch and lowered standards, deceptively justified by a crisis of traditional
humanistic education, the superficiality of fads and admiration for things that depreciate the set of
values of a higher order. The loss is compounded by the fact that Tomasz Mikocki was a scholar with
a modern set of mind, present in international scholarly circles, an innovative boss with extensive
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