Stanislaw Kot Manuscripts, 1950
Collection context
- Creator:
- Kot, Stanisław, 1885-1975
- Extent:
- 5 items 1 folder
- Language:
- Polish .
- Scope and content:
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Included in this collection are two minor typescripts identified as being by Kot: "Memorandum sur la sauvegarde de la culture des pays soumis à la domination sovietique" and "Komunizovanie nauczania;" a brief typescript in English, with no author given, concerning Polish-American relations after the war; and biographical notes on Kot and on Jan Dabrowski, another Polish historian.
- Biographical / historical:
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Stanislaw Kot (1885-1975), Polish cultural historian, politician, author of such works as "Historia wychowania (1924" 1934), "Ideologia polityczna i spoeczna Braci Polskich zwanych Arjanami" (1932), and other. Professor of the Jagiellonian University (1920–1933), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University. During World War II he served as a Minister of Information for the Polish government-in-exile in London under General Sikorski and then under Stanislaw Mikolajczyj and later an Ambassador of the Polish exiled government in Moscow and Rome. He remained in the West after the war.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is located on-site.
- Terms of access:
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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
- Preferred citation:
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Stanislaw Kot Manuscripts; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
- Location of this collection:
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