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DOI Artikel:Lukaszewicz, Adam; Świderkówna, Anna [Gefeierte Pers.]: Anna Świderek (Anna Świderkówa): 1925-2008
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42093#0025
OBITUARIES
Anna Swiderek
(Anna Swiderkdwna)
1925-2008
Anna Swiderek (or Anna Sividerkowna, as she was usually styled in correct Polish), an eminent Polish
scholar, head of the Chair of Papyrology, University of Warsaw in 1961-1991, was born in Warsaw on
5 December 1925.
As a young girl not yet nineteen, she, like many others, pitched into the Polish resistance against the
Nazis, serving as a nurse in an army hospital during the Warsaw Uprising in August and September
1944. Sharing thefate of many civilian fighters, she ended up being displaced to a camp in Germany, from
where she returned in June 1945.
Her study of classics began in the difficult post-war conditions of1945. Her mentors at the University
of Warsaw ivere the eminent philologist Kazimierz Kumaniecki and the equally illustrious papyrologist
Jerzy Manteujfel. It was a measure oj the times that she was appointed assistant while still a student
(1 March 1946).
Her doctoral dissertation, defended in 1951, was on the aetiological legend in the poetry oj
Callimachus. Her work in the field ofpapyrology, under the guidance of first Jerzy Manteujfel (who died
prematurely in 1954) and then Raphael Taubenschlag (1881-1958), fruited in a habilitation, published
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007
Anna Swiderek
(Anna Swiderkdwna)
1925-2008
Anna Swiderek (or Anna Sividerkowna, as she was usually styled in correct Polish), an eminent Polish
scholar, head of the Chair of Papyrology, University of Warsaw in 1961-1991, was born in Warsaw on
5 December 1925.
As a young girl not yet nineteen, she, like many others, pitched into the Polish resistance against the
Nazis, serving as a nurse in an army hospital during the Warsaw Uprising in August and September
1944. Sharing thefate of many civilian fighters, she ended up being displaced to a camp in Germany, from
where she returned in June 1945.
Her study of classics began in the difficult post-war conditions of1945. Her mentors at the University
of Warsaw ivere the eminent philologist Kazimierz Kumaniecki and the equally illustrious papyrologist
Jerzy Manteujfel. It was a measure oj the times that she was appointed assistant while still a student
(1 March 1946).
Her doctoral dissertation, defended in 1951, was on the aetiological legend in the poetry oj
Callimachus. Her work in the field ofpapyrology, under the guidance of first Jerzy Manteujfel (who died
prematurely in 1954) and then Raphael Taubenschlag (1881-1958), fruited in a habilitation, published
19
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007